Short answer
The trigger has two parts. First, the discarded product must be listed in the national Waste Electrical and Electronic Product . Second, the operator must perform : dismantling; extracting material for raw material or fuel; changing physical or chemical characteristics to reduce the waste or its hazardous constituents; or final placement in an environmentally compliant landfill.
Repair, refurbishment, and second-hand reuse after repair or refurbishment are excluded from . A business that only collects covered waste does not need the for collection, but it must send the waste to a qualified treatment enterprise if it does not hold the qualification itself.
The qualification is facility- and activity-specific. The applicant must be an established enterprise that fits the regional development plan, has general VAT taxpayer enterprise-legal-person status, and has suitable sites, storage, treatment and supporting equipment, pollution controls, a data system, environmental-management and emergency measures, downstream plans for material it cannot fully treat, and qualified safety, quality, and environmental personnel. The certificate identifies the legal person, facility address, covered product categories, main equipment and operating parameters, treatment capacity, validity period, issue date, and certificate number. Holding a general recycling business registration or a certificate for a different facility or category does not satisfy those certificate terms.
The enterprise applies in writing to the ecology and environment authority of the city with districts where the facility is located. After accepting the application, the authority must publish the application information within three working days, allow at least ten working days for public comment, review the materials, conduct an on-site inspection, and decide within 60 days after acceptance. A pending application does not authorize .
Article 34 of the Regulation separately permits a provincially approved . It does not create a general exemption for ordinary recyclers, and the site must have centralized pollution-control facilities, meet applicable discharge and solid-waste technical standards, and comply with planning requirements.
Citations (2)
- Qualification Licensing Measures for Waste Electrical and Electronic Product Disposal
Articles 2, 7-11 and 16 establish catalogue scope, applicant conditions, the three-working-day publication period, minimum ten-working-day comment period, 60-day review period, certificate contents, and the prohibition on unqualified or out-of-scope treatment.
- Regulation on Recovery and Disposal of Waste Electrical and Electronic Products
Articles 2-3, 6, 12, 22 and 34 define treatment and catalogue scope, require qualification, govern collectors, prohibit unqualified treatment, and describe the provincially approved centralized-site route.