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• All other types of oil generating waste oil: €0,02 per litre.
No data on the operational costs of VALORLUB are available yet. The first annual
report is expected by June 2009 (VALORLUB has only recently been operational).
15.6.11 Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils
Producers and importers of oil pay a contribution to VALORFRIT, depending on the
quantities and the type of oil that they bring into the market:
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Fat Fat
Oil
Domestic rate ≤ 2.5 kg: €0.030/kg ≤ 3 l: 0.0276/l
Commercial rate > 2.5 kg: €0.030/kg > 3 l: 0.00828/l
For some larger companies, the yearly contribution amounts to €750,000. This
contribution is usually passed on to the consumers.
In 2007, VALORFRIT had an operating income of almost €2 million (Annual report
2007, VALORFRIT).
In 2007, the charges of VALORFRIT (€2 million) were composed of the
reimbursements of the operators for the collection and recovery/disposal of the
waste oil (more than €95,000), the reimbursement of the municipalities for the
collection of domestic oil via their container parks (€ 380,000), communication and
sensitization costs (€1 million) and the operational costs of VALORFRIT
(€460,000). 316
The monetary reserve of VALORFRIT amounted to €2.7 million in 2007 and will be
systematically diminished in the period 2008-2012 in accordance with the
management plan for the period.
15.7 Effects on Technical Change / Innovation
OECD remarked in its study on extended producer responsibility that EPR really did
have an impact on the amount of waste collected for recycling, but that the relation
with prevention and design-for-environment is hard to prove: “it is hard to know
whether firms made the changes in response to the policies or for cost-savings or
other reasons.” 317 EPR schemes often tend to evolve from a prevention incentive
towards a funding scheme for recycling.
In Flanders most EPR schemes operate with overall goals to be achieved by an entire
sector, and only limited goals to be achieved by individual participants of the system.
316 VALORFRIT (2008) Annual Report 2007.
317 OECD working group WGWPR, EPR Policies and Product Design: Economic Theory and Selected
Case Studies, 2006.