Producer Compliance

Compliance - Your peace of mind

WEEE Compliance UK is committed to ensuring that all its members have the peace of mind of knowing that they are on the right side of the law regarding their compliance. WEEE Compliance UK's knowledgeable experts will provide advice and recommendation regarding the law and how to most effectively stay on the right side of it.

Our advanced systems are tailored to provide the reporting required by Government and are fully auditable and will also provide all the information your require to demonstrate not only your compliance but also to your customers what has happened to their waste.

As an interested party you need to know how the WEEE Directive affects you

What is the WEEE legislation?

This legislation makes producers of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) collectively responsible for those products when they become waste.

If your products fit into one of the Product categories (1-13) below and into the classifications (a-d) then it should be treated as "EEE"?

Equipment which falls under one of the 10 categories listed in the WEEE Regulations:

  1. Large household appliances (excluding ODS fridges/freezers)
  2. Small household appliances (eg toaster, kettle, vacuum cleaner)
  3. IT and telecommunications equipment (excluding CRTs)
  4. Consumer equipment
  5. Lighting equipment
  6. Electrical and electronic tools (with the exception of large-scale stationary industrial tools)
  7. Toys, leisure and sports equipment
  8. Medical devices (with the exception of all implanted and infected products)
  9. Monitoring and control instruments
  10. Automatic dispensers
Furthermore the WEEE regulations split out the following 3 product groups from the above categories for separate reporting:
  1. Cooling equipment
  2. Display equipment (CRTs) including plasma and LCDs
  3. Gas discharge lamps
  1. Is dependent on electrical current or electromagnetic fields to work properly
  2. Uses a voltage less than 1000V AC or 1500V DC
  3. Is a final product (not component or spare part)
  4. Is not subject to an exemption (fixed installation*, LSSIT, military equipment, consumable)

* A fixed installation is a combination of several equipment, systems, finished products and/or components assembled and/or erected by an assembler at a given place to operate together in an expected environment to perform a specific task, but not intended to be placed on the market as a single functional or commercial unit.

You are probably a PRODUCER if you fall into one of the following categories

  • You are a manufacturer of EEE selling into the UK
  • You re-brand EEE, replacing the original brand and sell in the UK
  • You import EEE on a professional basis from unregistered foreign manufacturers
  • You are a foreign manufacturer who sells EEE directly to UK end users
  • You are a foreign manufacturer of EEE who wants to relieve importers of the need to register (optional) (For the WEEE Regulations, it's the UK market that matters)

As a PRODUCER you will need to:

  • Join a producer compliance scheme such as WEEE Compliance UK
  • Pay for WEEE to be treated and recycled
  • Make quarterly reports of types and quantity of new EEE placed on the market
  • Mark new EEE with the crossed-out wheeled bin symbol
  • Declare their producer registration number to distributors (for household EEE only)
  • Make available information to aid recycling and re-use of products
  • Keep ongoing record of EEE placed on the market

New and Historic WEEE

As a PRODUCER you are responsible for financing the collection and treatment of:

  • For new EEE put on market when it is disposed of
  • For historical EEE sold before August 05 that is being replaced on a like for like basis (For historical EEE not being replaced, the business end user is responsible)