24/10/2017
Proposed amendments to the 2013 WEEE Regulations (UK)
Three options for extending the scope of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations 2013 to all but specifically exempt equipment (ie ‘open scope’) by 1 January 2019 have been set out in ‘Consultation on the proposed amendments to the 2013 WEEE Regulations’.
‘Open scope’ is a requirement of European implementing regulation 2017/699, which seeks to establish a common methodology for calculating the total weight of all electrical and electronic equipment sold in each member state and a common methodology for calculating the weight of waste equipment each member state generates.
To help facilitate this, the EU regulation also requires non-waste and waste equipment to be reported in 6 categories, rather than 14 as at present.
Defra’s 3 options for implementing open scope are
1) Do nothing – allow the existing WEEE Regulations to take effect, with the requirement to categorise and report EEE and WEEE in the 6 revised categories.
2) Amend the 2013 WEEE Regulations to retain the current system of 14 categories with new flexibility to allocate products previously out of scope to one of the 14 categories.
3) Amend the 2013 WEEE Regulations to move to the 6 categories, but utilising three additional sub-categories.
An Impact Assessment published alongside the consultation shows that options 2 and 3 are de-regulatory because they would result in overall cost savings for business compared with the do nothing scenario in option 1. None of the options propose changes to the way in which WEEE is currently collected by local authorities.
Defra is also seeking views on two other proposed changes to the 2013 WEEE Regulations
- making membership of the Producer Balancing Scheme compulsory (PBS is an initiative set up by 23 compliance schemes to deal collaboratively with WEEE where local authorities and schemes have been unable to agree a contract to deal with it)
- changes to the way charges levied on producers are managed by the 4 UK regulators
Comments are also sought on the effectiveness of the 2013 WEEE Regulations to inform Defra’s Post Implementation Review of the Regulations.
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