The
WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC is an EU Directive founded on
the principle of "Producer Responsibility" and
its general objectives are:
- to prevent waste
of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and to promote
the reuse, recycling and recovery of such wastes
- to improve the environmental
performance of all operators involved in the life cycle
of electrical and electronic equipment, e.g. producers,
distributors and consumers and in particular those operators
directly involved in the treatment of waste electrical
and electronic equipment.
Scope
WEEE
Directive applies across ten categories of Electrical and
Electronic Equipment (EEE) namely:
- Large household
appliances
- Small household
appliances
- IT and telecommunications
equipment
- Consumer equipment
- Lighting equipment
- Electrical and electronic
tools
- Toys, leisure and
sports equipment
- Medical devices
- Monitoring and control
instruments
- Automatic dispensers
Irish
Legislation
Producers
of EEE must register with the WEEE Register Society and
where they are supplying household consumer EEE, can join
a compliance scheme (see below) to help meet their collection,
recycling and reporting requirements as specified in the
Regulations.
WEEE
Register Society
The
WEEE Register Society was set up to assist producer companies
in meeting their obligations for the responsible management
WEEE.
The
principal functions of the Society include:
- registration of
producers and importers of electrical and electronic equipment.
- notifying the EPA
where there is evidence of non compliance with the Regulations.
- verification of
visible Environmental Management Costs (vEMC)
- determination of
the market share of individual producers.
COMPLIANCE
CHECKLIST
1. Establish
if you are considered a producer under the definition of
‘Producer’.
- Apply for registration
with the WEEE Register Society Ltd.
- Pay the correct
registration fee.
- The WEEE Register
will issue you with a registration certificate and a unique
five digit registration number.
- Display this registration
number on Invoice, delivery dockets, credit notes etc…
- Automatically you
will receive, by email your Username and Password from
the WEEE Blackbox.
- Receive and complete
WEEE Blackbox Historical Data Spreadsheet.
- Submit monthly data
to WEEE Blackbox including weights and units of EEE products
you placed on the Irish market.
- Re-register by 31st
January 2006, and annually from that date.
2. Determine
if your EEE products are classed as B2B (Business to Business)
or B2C (Business to Consumer).
A. If
you have established you are B2C you must
join a compliance scheme, either;
- ERP (European Recycling
Platform) or WEEE Ireland
- Apply and receive
scheme membership.
- Pay monthly invoice,
which is based on your monthly data submission to the
WEEE Blackbox.
B. If
your EEE products are B2B, you can either join a compliance
scheme or self comply.
If you
wish to join a compliance scheme you can join either ERP
or WEEE Ireland. If this option is not open to you, you
can self comply.
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