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Starting Date: 25-07-06
Closing Date: 17-10-06
This consultation seeks views of businesses, manufacturers, retailers, producers, local authorities and enforcement authorities on draft regulations implementing Directives 2002/96/EC and 2003/108/EC of the European Parliament relating to waste electrical and electronic equipment. This consultation does not seek views on the provisions of the Directive itself but on the UK's proposed interpretation of it.
The WEEE Directive is European environmental legislation. It is one of a small number of European Directives which implement the principle of "extended producer responsibility". Under this principle producers are required to take responsibility for the environmental impact of their products, especially when they become waste. The WEEE Directive applies this in relation to electrical and electronic equipment (EEE).
The broad aim of the WEEE Directive is to address the environmental impacts of WEEE and to encourage its separate collection and subsequent treatment, reuse, recovery, recycling and environmentally sound disposal.
The Directive seeks to improve the environmental performance of all operators involved in the lifecycle of EEE especially those dealing with WEEE. Accordingly it sets certain requirements relating to the separate collection of WEEE, standards of its treatment at permitted facilities, and sets targets for its recycling and recovery.
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