The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2006 came into force in January 2007 and were fully implemented on 1 July 2007. If you Place EEE onto the UK market you are a producer and must register with a Producer compliance scheme (PCS) to meet your obligation. The WEEE Regulations are intended to transfer the responsibility (and the cost) of dealing with electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) at the end of its life, from the user to the producer. For WEEE, producers have to register with a scheme by 15th November for the year ahead.
You are a producer if you:
- Manufacture EEE and place it on the UK market under your own brand
- Import EEE from outside the UK and place it on the UK market
- Rebrand EEE manufactured by someone else and place it on the UK market
As a producer, there are several requirements you have to meet:
- You must join a Producer Compliance Scheme (PCS)
- You must supply information on your sales of EEE to the PCS.
- B2C members are required to report there sales data of EEE quarterly whereby B2B members as per the WEEE Regulations amended 2009 are required to report that sales of EEE are annually. . You must fund (via the PCS) the collection, treatment and recycling of WEEE
- You must mark your products with a crossed out wheelie bin, a producer identification mark and a date mark or dash
- You must keep records of the EEE you have put on the market (Insert image of wheelie bin )
- You must provide information about your products to recyclers to enable safe and effective treatment at the end of its life.
As a producer once you have joined a PCS your details will be registered with the Environment Agency who provide a Producer Registration Number. The EA keep a public register showing a record of all registered producers.
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