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| Notification of recent relevant legislation updates for the WEEE Directive |
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| WEEE Directive Updates |
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December 2007: Amended WEEE Regulations Published |
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The Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 2007. |
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December 2007: WEEE Progress Report Published |
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Progress made so far in the development of the UK WEEE System. |
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December 2007: New WEEE Guidance Notes Published |
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Government guidance notes to support the WEEE regulations. |
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April 2007: WEEE Treatment Guidance |
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Guidance has been issued on Best Available Treatment Recovery and Recycling Techniques (BATRRT) and treatment of WEEE. |
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April 2007: WEEE Exemptions Published |
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New exemptions to waste management licensing have been published for the storage, refurbishment and lamp crushing of WEEE. |
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February 2007: DTI Governement Guidance Notes |
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The DTI have released further guidance for all stakeholders on the WEEE directive. |
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Role of Local Authorities under WEEE: letter to Waste Disposal Authorities in England. |
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Letter on the role of Producer Compliance Schemes (PCS) under the WEEE Regulations 2006. |
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Letter on the role of Distributors under the WEEE Regulations 2006. |
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December 2006: WEEE Directive Published |
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The UK Regulations implementing the WEEE Directive were laid before Parliament on 12 December 2006 and enter into force on 2 January 2007. The UK WEEE regulations are available to download please see attached PDF. |
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August 2006: |
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DTI publishes 4 th consultation on WEEE directive with replies invited by 17 th October 2006 . This full consultation can be viewed on the DTI website. www.dti.gov.uk/innovation/sustainability/weee/page30269.html |
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| May 2006: Conclusions of Implementation Review - Supplementary Paper |
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Following the March Implementation Review, the Implementation Team have encouraged the stakeholder community to put forward their views. The views and suggestions have been considered and the changes to the proposals from March are included in the attached PDF. |
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| March 2006: Conclusions of Implementation Review |
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A paper outlining the conclusions of the implementation review is available in PDF formatt. This only applies to the B2C sector, the B2B sector remains the same. Please visit our B2B section for further details. |
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| December 2005: Further WEEE Directive Delays |
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The DTI announced yesterday (15/12/2005) that the WEEE directive would be delayed further. The DTI have suggested that a further consultation will take place in spring 2006. This would suggest that the producer responsibility date will slip back further to perhaps January 2007 but no official comment has been made on this yet. |
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| August 2005: WEEE directive delay |
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The DTI has recently announced a further delay in the producer responsibility date under the WEEE directive. The original date of producer responsibility set out in the WEEE directive was 13 th August 2005, this was set back to January 2006 by the DTI in a statement released in March 2005 and the latest delay now suggests producers will be responsible for the cost of WEEE collection and treatment from June 2006. A full copy of the letter from DTI can be downloaded |
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| May 2005: Consultation on producer registration fees |
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The DTI have recently published a short 4 week consultation on the proposed fees for producer registration under the WEEE directive. Full details are available at www.dti.gov.uk
The proposal suggests producers wishing to register will have to pay a yearly fee of £730 whilst those registering through a scheme have to pay £380. Compliance schemes themselves will also have to pay to register under the proposed change structure. |
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| May 2005: Consultation on WEEE permitting |
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Defra have recently published a practical consultation on licensing of treatment premises relating to article 6 of the WEEE directive. The full detail of this can be downloaded from www.defra.gov.uk.
The consultation suggests this further exemption to waste management licensing for the storage of WEEE and the refurbishment for re-use of WEEE. These exemptions are designed to encourage low risk storage involved in producer take back and to encourage re-use. |
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| March 24th 2005 |
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The Government has made an announcement on the timetable and policy leading to implementation of the WEEE and RoHS Directives in the UK. |
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| December 2004: Latest news on directive implementation |
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The DTI have now completed their consultations on the implementation of the WEEE and RoHS directives. The next stage being implementation into UK Law. The range of issues covered includes the following;
- Objectives
- Scope
- Definitions
- Product Design
- Collection
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Financing
- Reporting
RID UK Ltd have been actively involved in detailing a response to this consultation paper which we feel addresses many of the issues relating to the domestic sector without going into detail on the industrial sector. This industrial sector has its own unique characteristics that differ from the domestic sector. This includes a more complicated supply chain leading to a more complex reverse logistics chain, along with more specialist products, that require clarification on their exclusion or inclusion in the WEEE directive.
pdf. of overview of the responses to this paper are available from the DTI web site http://www.dti.gov.uk/sustainability/weee/#Consultation_on_Government_implementation
RID UK Ltd specialize in recycling Category 9 equipment and therefore have followed the scope issue very closely as this is perhaps one of the major issues affecting this sector. It is very important to get Europe wide agreement on which products are included or excluded. The DTI are trying to clarify this through the TAC (Technical Adaptation Committee) meetings and the latest thinking is that an exhaustive list of inclusions/exclusions will not be available. Instead a set of criteria will be established to determine the status of a given product. The DTI fully appreciate the importance of this issue and are pushing for agreement at the TAC meetings. Minutes of the meetings so far can be found on the DTI web site www.dti.gov.uk/sustainability |
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| Directive 2003/108/EC Amending Directive 2002/96/EC |
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Modification of article 9 of the WEEE directive to ensure the financial burden of business to business waste does not fall solely on the producer of electrical and electronic goods.
Click here for more info from EU On-Line. |
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| February 13th 2003 |
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The WEEE directive and the RoHS directives were published in the Official Journal of the European Union on February 13th 2003. Each member state has 18 months to implement the directives in national law. This means the UK must implement both directives by 13th August 2004. |
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| Directive 2002/96/EC - The WEEE Directive (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) |
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Seeks to increase reuse recovery and recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment to reduce landfill.
Click here for more info from EU On-Line. |
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