Main Requirements of the WEEE Directive
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Member States to set up systems to encourage separate collection
of WEEE; and are to set up systems which will allow the return of
WEEE free of charge to the final holder;
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No mandatory requirement for householders to separate all WEEE. Member
States must instead seek to minimise co-disposal and encourage appropriate
behaviour;
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Retailers are to ensure that WEEE is taken back on a one to one basis
when a new, equivalent type, product is supplied; but Member States
can provide that retailers make alternative arrangements instead,
provided that they are free of charge to the final holder of the WEEE.
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By 31 December 2006, Member States must achieve a collection rate
of at least 4 kilograms on average per inhabitant per year of waste
electrical and electronic equipment from private households;
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Member States to ensure that all WEEE collected from private households
is transported to treatment facilities authorised under Article 6.
Article 6 sets down standards which treatment facilities will have
to meet;
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Member States are to ensure that systems are set up by producers
to provide for recovery and re-use of separately collected WEEE according
to set recovery, re-use and recycling targets. Targets are set as
a proportion of collected WEEE from private households;
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There are significant data reporting obligations;
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Producers are to provide guarantees for the financing of future
waste to minimise number of orphans.
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