1. TWINNING PROJECT
INTRODUCTION OF A MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF WASTE ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT (WEEE) IN UKRAINE
General requirements of Directive 2012/19/EU on waste electrical and electronic equipment. Producer’s responsibilities

2. Main topics of the presentation
1. Main objectives of the Directive 2. Circular economy – ЕЕЕ, top product group 3. Targets for collection 4. System for collection 5. Targets for recycling 6. Permits and technical standards for the sites for collection and treatment 7. Data collected 8. Obligations of producers/importers 9. Extended producer’s responsibilities

3. Why Directive on WEEE?
The amount of WEEE generated in the World is growing rapidly - in EU27 between 8.3 and 9.1 mln tonnes (2005)
The content of hazardous components in electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) – cause high risk for environment and human health
Composition of WEEE- Fe, non Fe metal, big % of valuable materials (Gold in 100kg mobile phone eqv. 1t ore)

4. Why exactly this waste stream!
High risk for environment and human health from hazardous substances in WEEE :
When landfilled – leaching potential, heavy metal, brominated flame retardants, vaporization of Mercury and CFC
When incinerated illegally dioxin formation during the incineration due to the presence of the brominated components, PVC, Mercury, emission of heavy metals

6. WEEE - top waste stream for circular economy
Circular economy - new economic and industrial system based on:
the reuse of products and raw materials,
the restorative capacity of natural resources. It attempts to minimize value
destruction in the overall system and to maximize value creation in each link in the system.
In the transition to a circular economy the focus is no longer solely on decoupling environmental pressures from economic growth, but also on the opportunities created if resource consumption and economy remain coupled.

9. Main objectives of the Directive
Lays dawn measures:
to protect the environment and human health
preventing or reducing the adverse impacts of the generation and management of waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)
Aim to achieve:
The improvement in the environmental performance of all of the economic operators involved in the life cycle of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) and, especially, the operators directly involved in the treatment of WEEE

10. Definitions (1)
“Electrical and electronic equipment” or ‘EEE’ means equipment which:
is dependent on electric currents or electromagnetic fields in order to work properly and
equipment for the generation, transfer and measurement of such currents and fields and designed for use with a voltage rating not exceeding volts for alternating current and volts for direct current;

11. Definitions (2)
‘waste electrical and electronic equipment’ or ‘WEEE’ means electrical or electronic equipment which is waste within the meaning of Article 3(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC, including all components, sub-assemblies and consumables which are part of the product at the time of discarding;

12. Definitions (3)
‘producer’ means any natural or legal person who, irrespective of the selling technique used, including distance communication
(i) is established in a Member State and manufactures EEE under his own name or trademark, or has EEE designed or manufactured and markets it under his name or trademark within the territory of that Member State;
(ii) is established in a Member State and resells within the territory of that Member State, under his own name or trademark, equipment produced by other suppliers, a reseller not being regarded as the ‘producer’ if the brand of the producer appears on the equipment, as provided for in point
(iii) is established in a Member State and places on the market of that Member State, on a professional basis, EEE from a third country or from another Member State; or
(iv) sells EEE by means of distance communication directly to private households or to users other than private households in a Member State, and is established in another Member State or in a third country

13. Scope of the regulation
10 indicative categories:
1.Large Household Appliances
2.Small Household Appliances
3.IT and Telecommunications Equipment
4.Consumer Equipment
5.Lighting Equipment
6.Electrical and Electronic Tools
7.Toys, Leisure and Sports Equipment
8.Medical Devices
9.Monitoring and Control Instruments
10.Automatic Vending Dispensers

14. Temperature exchange equipment
Categories
Type of equipment 1
Temperature exchange equipment 2
Screens, monitors, and equipment containing screens having a surface greater than 100 cm 2 3
Lamps 4
Large equipment (any external dimension more than 50 cm) 5
Small equipment (no external dimension more than 50 cm) 6
Small IT and telecommunication
equipment (no external dimension more than 50 cm)

15. What is not covered by WEEE?
Military equipment
Filament light bulbs
Equipment designed to be send into space
Large scale static industrial tools
Large-scale fixed installations, except any equipment which is not specifically designed and installed as part of those installations
Means of transport for persons or goods, excluding electric two-wheel vehicles which are not type-approved
Non-road mobile machinery made available exclusively for professional use
Equipment specifically designed for the purposes of research and development that is only made available on a business-to-business basis
Medical devices and in vitro diagnostic, where such devices are expected to be infective prior to end of life, and active implantable medical devices

16. Targets for collection
From 2019:
65 % of the average weight of EEE placed on the market in the three preceding years in the Member State concerned,
or alternatively 85 % of WEEE generated on the territory of that Member State.
Until 31 December 2015:
at least 4 kilograms on average per inhabitant per year of WEEE from private households
or the amount of weight of WEEE on average in the three preceding years

17. Collection(1) Separate collection
1. Minimise the disposal of WEEE in the form of unsorted municipal waste,
2. Ensure the correct treatment of all collected WEEE,
3. Priority waste: temperature exchange equipment containing ozone-depleting, substances and fluorinated greenhouse gases, fluorescent lamps
containing mercury, photovoltaic panels and small equipment

18. Collection(2)
Producers should be allowed to set up and to operate individual and/or collective take-back systems for WEEE from private households provided that these are in line with the objectives of this Directive
Systems are set up allowing final holders and distributors to return such waste at least free of charge.
Viability and accessibility of the necessary collection facilities taking into account, the population density
Options for distributors:
When supplying a new product, WEEE can be returned
Collection for small WEEE , at retail shops with sales areas relating to EEE of at least 400 sq.m.

19. Type of equipment
Categories
Recovery and recycling targets
1.Temperature exchange equipment
4. Large equipment (any external dimension more than 50 cm)
WEEE falling within category 1 or 4 of Annex III
85 % shall be recovered, and
80 % shall be prepared for re-use and recycled
2. Screens, monitors, and equipment containing screens having a surface greater than 100 cm 2
WEEE falling within category 2 of Annex III
80 % shall be recovered, and
70 % shall be prepared for re-use and recycled;
5.Small equipment (no external dimension more than 50 cm)
6. Small IT and telecommunication
equipment (no external dimension more than 50 cm)
WEEE falling within category 5 or 6 of Annex III
75 % shall be recovered, and
55 % shall be prepared for re-use and recycled;
3. Lamps
WEEE falling within category 3 of Annex III
80 % shall be recycled.

20. What does WEEE consist of?
Ferrous Metal (Iron, stainless steel)
Non-Ferrous Metal (aluminium, copper)
Plastics
Printed circuit boards
Batteries
Capacitors
Liquid crystal displays
Cathode ray tubes
Mercury switches

21. Large equipment- average content –estimation of category composition

22. Category 5 small household appliances-average content - estimation of category composition

23. Permits to the operators who collect and treat WEEE
Any establishment or undertaking carrying out treatment operations shall obtains a permit from the competent authorities in compliance with Article 23 of Directive 2008/98/EC
Any establishment or undertaking who carrying out treatment, collection or/and transport shall hold the permit or to be registered
Applied technologies on the sites for treatment shall be carry out in a way to ensure achievement of targets
The permit shall include all conditions, necessary for compliance with technical requirements pursuant Directive
Treatment plants need to be able to demonstrate these recycling rates are achieved

24. Treatment requirements
Specific components to be removed, for example:
PCBs capacitors
CFCH
Mercury switches or backlight lamps
Batteries
Printed circuit boards
Toner cartridges
Plastic containing brominated flame retardants•
Cathode ray tubes (CRT’s)
Refrigerant gases
Liquid crystal displays (LCD’s)

25. Standards for treatment sites
1. Sites for storage (including temporary storage) :
impermeable surfaces for appropriate - spillage collection facilities, decanters and cleanser-degreasers,
storage area for different categories WEEE
weatherproof covering for appropriate areas.
2. Sites for treatment of WEEE:
scales to measure the weight of the treated waste,
impermeable surfaces and waterproof covering for appropriate areas with the provision of spillage collection facilities
appropriate storage for disassembled spare parts,
appropriate containers for storage of batteries, PCBs/PCTs and other hazardous waste such as radioactive waste,
equipment for the treatment of water in compliance with health and environmental regulations.

26. Financial issues in respect of WEEE from private households
Producers provide for the financing of the collection, treatment, recovery and environmentally sound disposal of WEEE from private households
For products placed on the market later than 13 August 2005, each producer shall be responsible for financing the operations relating to the waste from his own products.
Financing operations with waste from his own products - individually or by joining a collective scheme.

27. Financing in respect of WEEE other than from private households
Producers provide for financing of the costs for the collection and treatment of WEEE from users other than private households resulting from products placed on the market after 13 August 2005.
For historical waste the financing of the costs shall be provided by producers of those products when supplying them or by owner.

30. Obligations of producers / importers to provide information
Producers/ Importers or distributors must informed the users about:
their role in contributing to the collection of WEEE,
the requirement not to dispose of WEEE as unsorted municipal waste and to collect such WEEE separately
available collection/return facilities,
Producers/ Importers must provide treatment facilities with all appropriate information to identify components, materials and the location of hazardous substances in the products
Producers / Importers shall provide free of charge information on dismantling and treatment in respect of each type of new EEE put on the market to reuse centres, treatment and recycling facilities

31. Obligations of producers/importers for labelling and marking
To minimise the disposal of WEEE as unsorted municipal waste and to facilitating its separate collection producers must appropriately mark placed on the market EEE with the symbol
Producer shall identify themselves by a visible, readable and durable mark on the appliance consisting of: 
The name of the physical or legal person and identification number.
The date of manufacture / put on market after 13 August 2005.
Place of marking: on the equipment, service manual or instruction for use, warranty card or on the packaging

32. Registration, information and reporting – obligations of producres
Member States must draw up registers of producers of electrical and electronic equipment. That register shall serve to monitor compliance with the requirements of this Directive

33. Collected from private household 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Product category
Put on the market
Collected from private household
Collected other than from private household
Total WEEE collected
Treated in MS
Treated in another MS
Treated outside the EC
Total weight tonnes
1. Large household appliances
2. Small household appliances
3. IT and telecomunications equipment
4 Consumer equipment
5 Lighting equipment
6 Electrical and electronic tool
7 Toys, leisure and sport equipment
8 Medical devices
9 Monitor and control instrument
10 Automatic dispenser

34. Reuse and recycling rate WEEE reused as whole appliance1 2 3 4 5
Product category
Recovery
Recovery rate
Reuse and recycling
Reuse and recycling rate
WEEE reused as whole appliance
Total weight tonnes %
1. Large household appliances
2. Small household appliances
3. IT and telecomunications equipment
4 Consumer equipment
5 Lighting equipment
6 Electrical and electronic tool
7 Toys, leisure and sport equipment
8 Medical devices
9 Monitor and control instrument
10 Automatic dispenser

35. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Twinning project
INTRODUCTION OF A MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF WASTE ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT (WEEE) IN UKRAINE
This Project is funded by the European Union
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Maria Krasteva
Maria Krasteva
Waste streams expert 35