The EU has implemented the WEEE Directive on scrap electronic and electrical equipment since August 2005. On September 3, 2009, the Secretariat of the European Council proposed a new revised version of RoHS directive and WEEE Directive to the representatives of member states of the EU. The revised draft text was re inserted into annex IA and annex IB (list of electronic and electrical equipment and other products), and clarified and supplemented other contents.
WEEE Directive:
The EU has implemented the WEEE Directive on scrap electronic and electrical equipment since August 2005. In this act, which had been in force since 2003, manufacturers (including importers and distributors) must be legally liable for the cost of their own scrap recovery. With the further implementation of RoHS directive and WEEE Directive, the specific implementation demand of WEEE Directive is increasingly urgent for foreign importers and dealers.
Revision Directive:
On december3,2008, the EU issued the revised proposals of WEEE Directive (2002/96/ec) and RoHS Directive (2002/95/ec). The purpose of this proposal is to create a better regulatory environment, namely, simple, understandable, effective and enforceable regulations. The main contents are as follows
■ coordinate the registration and reporting obligations of the producer, and the registration agencies of member states can operate with each other;
■ transfer some of the appendices to the relevant scope of the WEEE Directive to RoHS directive;
■ coordinate the recovery funds of producers both inside and outside the EU, and some member states have asked manufacturers to fully bear all the costs of electronic waste collection;
■ formulate new recovery rate and recovery target of electronic and electrical equipment: the recovery rate of equipment includes the reuse of the whole electrical appliances, and the recovery rate of each kind of products will be increased by 5%; the recovery target of unit weight electronic and electrical equipment that each member country has put into the market in the past two years is 65%; different recovery targets are different, the consumption is more strict and the consumption is less relaxed;
■ clarify which appliances can be excluded from the Directive.
Second revision Directive:
On September 3, 2009, the Secretariat of the European Council proposed a new revised version of RoHS directive and WEEE Directive to the representatives of member states of the EU. The revised draft text was re inserted into annex IA and annex IB (list of electronic and electrical equipment and other products), and clarified and supplemented other contents.
