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� Retailers:<br />

29/09/09<br />

• Register premises with local authority;<br />

• Display environmental management costs <strong>of</strong> specified EEE;<br />

• Comply with requirements regarding price display and statutory notices;<br />

• Take back household WEEE free <strong>of</strong> charge when replacing on a one-forone,<br />

like for like basis;<br />

• Store, transport, and dispose <strong>of</strong> WEEE as set out in Regulations.<br />

� Local authorities:<br />

• Local enforcement responsibilities (particularly in relation to retailer<br />

obligations);<br />

• <strong>Management</strong> <strong>of</strong> civic amenity sites.<br />

� Environmental Protection Agency:<br />

• Leads national enforcement <strong>of</strong> the WEEE Regulations;<br />

• Promotion <strong>of</strong> eco-design and re-use <strong>of</strong> EEE.<br />

� WEEE Register Society Ltd. National producer registration body:<br />

• Registration <strong>of</strong> producers <strong>of</strong> EEE;<br />

• Notify Environmental Protection Agency where evidence <strong>of</strong> noncompliance;<br />

• Determine which categories/sub-categories EEE product belongs to;<br />

• Verification <strong>of</strong> visible environmental management costs;<br />

• Determination <strong>of</strong> market share <strong>of</strong> individual producers (function<br />

devolved to the “Black box” currently managed by Deloitte & Touche).<br />

� European Recycling Platform (ERP) – Ireland:<br />

• Approved producer compliance scheme.<br />

• Established in 2005 as a result <strong>of</strong> the success and expansion <strong>of</strong> ERP in<br />

Europe. ERP Ireland has 75 members and continues to grow annually.<br />

• To date ERP have collected 29,731 tonnes <strong>of</strong> recyclable waste from its<br />

members and the public.<br />

• ERP operate in Cavan, Clare, Fingal, Louth, Limerick, Meath, Monaghan<br />

and Kerry.<br />

� WEEE Ireland: 408<br />

408 WEEE Ireland is a not for pr<strong>of</strong>it organisation, founded by producers <strong>of</strong> electrical and electronic<br />

appliances in order to comply with the legal obligations imposed by the WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC.

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