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table are the ‘2008 Review of Directive 2002/96 on Waste Electrical and Electronic
Equipment (WEEE)’ produced by the United Nations University (2007) 425 and ‘The
Producer Responsibility Principle of the WEEE Directive’ presented by Ökopol
(2007). 426 Additional references are provided throughout the document.
Supplementary details for several countries listed in Table 20-1, as well as for non
EU-based examples, are also given in this section. In addition, a more detailed case
study for Germany is given in Section 21.0.
Key points to be drawn from Table 20-1 are as follows:
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� According to the WEEE Directive, all MS require that their producers and
distributors of EEE be registered. For those MS for which information is
available, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, Portugal and
the United Kingdom all charge their producers and distributors of EEE for
joining the national register. In addition, Denmark, Ireland, Poland and
Portugal also require that their producers and distributors re-new this
registration annually;
� Reporting requirements vary from bi-monthly to annually, with most requiring
at least the ten category split, and a split by B2B/B2C (with the definition of
this split varying from country to country); the implications of the variations in
reporting requirements are discussed in more detail in Section 20.4;
� The responsibilities associated with the set-up and running of the initial
household collection infrastructure for WEEE (i.e. the physical responsibilities)
were not specified in the Directive. Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia and Sweden
subsequently assign this responsibility solely to the producer, whereas
Denmark and Germany assign such responsibility to the municipality and
Poland assign it to the distributor. The remaining countries use some
combination of these three key parties;
425 United Nations University (2007) 2008 Review of Directive 2002/96 on Waste Electrical and
Electronic Equipment (WEEE), Final Report produced for the European Commission.
426 Ökopol (2007) The Producer Responsibility Principle of the WEEE Directive, Report produced for the
European Commission.
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