• reduce waste arising from electrical and electronic equipment (EEE)
• make producers of EEE responsible for the environmental impact of their products, especially when they become waste
• encourage separate collection and subsequent treatment, reuse, recovery, recycling and sound environmental disposal of EEE
• improve the environmental performance of all those involved during the lifecycle of EEE

What is being consulted on?

This consultation which takes into account responses to earlier consultations from stakeholders is the latest and final phase of the government’s consultation process on the implementation of the WEEE Directive.

Key elements

The government has concluded that the implementation of the WEEE Directive should include the following features. 

• A distributor take back scheme for retailers, which will establish a network of designated collection facilities
• Obligatory registration for producers, through an approved producer compliance scheme
• SMEs will be able to join a compliance scheme through the fair fee structure, based on the market share or size of each business
• A code of practice covering the collection of WEEE from designated collection facilities
• Approved treatment facilities which will process WEEE and give evidence to producers on the amount of WEEE received for treatment
• Accredited reprocessing facilities which will provide evidence of reprocessing to producers
• An end of year settlement period to ensure producers are able to meet their obligations via an exchange system
• A voluntary approach for producers to show the cost of handling historical WEEE

For full details, please go to:

www.netregs.gov.uk/netregs/legislation/380525/473094/?lang=_e