RoHS is a product-composition and conformity regime for electrical and electronic equipment: it restricts listed hazardous substances in homogeneous materials, requires technical documentation, and connects compliance to the EU declaration of conformity and CE marking.
WEEE addresses collection, recycling, and treatment of waste electrical and electronic equipment, so detailed WEEE duties belong in a separate end-of-life workstream.
A product can need both RoHS and WEEE work, but the compliance outputs differ. RoHS controls restricted substances and CE-related product conformity before covered EEE is placed on the EU market. Directive 2012/19/EU governs waste prevention and the collection, treatment, recovery, financing, registration, information, and reporting system for WEEE, with the role assessed per Member State and sales route. Reuse product facts, not legal conclusions.
Side-by-side comparison
RoHS vs WEEE for electrical and electronic equipment
A comparison for deciding when a matter concerns restricted substances in EEE, when it concerns waste collection and recycling, and when a separate WEEE assessment is required.
RoHS controls listed hazardous substances in EEE before placement on the EU market and links compliance to technical documentation, EU declaration of conformity, CE marking, exemptions, and market-surveillance evidence.
Second framework
WEEE
WEEE concerns collection and recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment; detailed producer, registration, financing, reporting, take-back, and treatment duties require a separate WEEE assessment.
RoHS vs WEEE for electrical and electronic equipment
Does the EEE, including covered cables or spare parts, contain Annex II substances above the allowed homogeneous-material concentration values or rely on an Annex III or IV exemption?
RoHS source for Article 4 restrictions on EEE, cables, spare parts, homogeneous-material concentration values, and Annex III/IV exemptions.
maximum concentration value by weight
Is the item EEE within the WEEE Directive's six-category open scope, does an Article 2 exclusion apply, who is the producer in each Member State, and what registration, financing, marking, take-back, information, reporting, collection, treatment, and recovery duties follow?
Articles 2-3 and Annexes III-IV support the WEEE scope, exclusions, six categories, and producer definition.
Use RoHS to answer product-composition conformity. Use the WEEE Directive plus national transposition and register rules to answer producer-responsibility and waste-stage duties.
RoHS names economic-operator duties for manufacturers, authorised representatives, importers, and distributors, with manufacturer duties at the centre of technical documentation, EU declaration, CE marking, corrective action, and authority response.
RoHS source for definitions of manufacturer, authorised representative, importer, distributor, and economic operators plus Articles 7-12 duties.
‘economic operators’ means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor;
WEEE centres many duties on the producer, including manufacturers selling under their own brand, own-brand resellers in specified cases, professional importers, and distance sellers established in another Member State or third country that sell directly to users. Distributors also have take-back duties, and authorised representatives can fulfil specified producer duties.
RoHS is triggered by placing covered EEE on the EU market, including relevant cables and spare parts, subject to exclusions, staged application dates, and exemption rules.
RoHS source for placing-on-market definitions, Article 4 prevention rule, and cables and spare parts treatment.
placing on the market
WEEE duties start before waste arises: producer registration, financing, marking, sales reporting, and treatment information attach to placing EEE on a Member State market. Collection, take-back, treatment, recovery, and waste reporting apply when equipment becomes or generates WEEE.
Articles 5, 11-16 and Annexes IX-X support pre-waste registration, financing, marking, reporting, and treatment-information duties and waste-stage collection, treatment, and recovery duties.
Ask intake in three parts: product scope and placement, producer status by Member State and channel, and the end-of-life system that will collect, finance, report, and treat the WEEE.
RoHS work centres on restricted-substance conformity, technical documentation, internal production control, EU declaration of conformity, CE marking, production-change controls, registers of non-conforming EEE and recalls, and authority-request responses.
Official source for EN IEC 63000:2018 technical-documentation reference.
satisfies the requirements
WEEE requires Member State producer registers, reporting, financing of household or non-household WEEE under the applicable rules, separate collection and distributor take-back, treatment and recovery, the Annex IX crossed-out wheeled-bin mark, and information for users and treatment facilities.
Articles 5, 8, 11-16 and Annexes IX-X support registration, reporting, financing, take-back, treatment, recovery, marking, and information duties.
Keep a WEEE checklist by country and reporting period beside the RoHS release checklist. The WEEE file needs registrations, scheme or financing evidence, reports, marks, take-back arrangements, and treatment information rather than RoHS CE evidence.
RoHS evidence should include scope analysis, BOM and homogeneous-material assessment, supplier declarations or material declarations, test or assessment rationale, exemption register, EN IEC 63000 technical file, EU declaration of conformity, CE marking check, and change-control history.
Official source for RoHS technical documentation standard reference.
assessing materials, components and electrical
WEEE evidence should identify the product and six-category classification, exclusions considered, producer and authorised representative per Member State, registration number, quantities placed on the market, waste collected and treated, financing or scheme participation, take-back controls, marks, user information, and treatment information.
Articles 5 and 11-16 and Annexes III, IX and X support WEEE category, registration, quantities, financing, take-back, marking, user-information, and treatment-information records.
Keep a shared product evidence index, but tag every record by law, Member State, producer identity, reporting period, product category, and quantity basis. A BOM can support both workstreams, while a RoHS declaration proves no WEEE registration or financing fact.
RoHS timing includes placement-on-market dates, staged scope dates for certain equipment, 10-year retention for technical documentation and the EU declaration, and exemption renewal timing.
Commission implementation source for current exemption decision timing and renewal process notes.
18 to 24 months
The WEEE Directive moved to six-category open scope on 15 August 2018. Registration must be in place as required by each Member State, reports follow the national register's frequency and format, and producers must supply preparation-for-reuse and treatment information within one year after a new type of EEE is placed on the market.
Articles 2, 15 and 16 support six-category open scope from 15 August 2018, national registration and reporting, and treatment information within one year of placing a new EEE type on the market.
Maintain WEEE clocks by Member State for registration, reporting, scheme, financing, and treatment-information duties. Do not confuse them with RoHS substance dates, exemption renewals, or 10-year technical-file retention.
RoHS provides for market surveillance, authority requests, corrective measures, withdrawal or recall where appropriate, and Member State penalties that must be effective, proportionate, and dissuasive.
RoHS source for corrective measures, withdrawal, recall, authority requests, market surveillance, and penalties.
effective, proportionate and dissuasive
Member States determine WEEE inspections and penalties and must provide for effective, proportionate, and dissuasive penalties. A response may concern missing registration or reporting, financing, marking, take-back, treatment, shipment, or other nationally implemented duties.
Articles 23-24 support inspections and effective, proportionate, and dissuasive penalties for national WEEE implementation.
Prepare separate authority-response packs. The WEEE pack should identify the Member State, producer or other actor, registration and reporting record, quantities, scheme or financing evidence, take-back and treatment chain, marking, suspected breach, corrective action, and appeal route.
RoHS Article 1 links hazardous-substance restriction to environmentally sound recovery and disposal of waste EEE.
environmentally sound recovery and disposal
WEEE controls the collection, treatment, recovery, financing, information, registration, and reporting system for waste EEE. RoHS reduces hazardous substances before EEE becomes waste, which can support safer recovery and disposal, but does not satisfy those WEEE duties.
Articles 5 and 7-16 support the separate collection, treatment, recovery, financing, information, registration, and reporting system for WEEE.
Share product identifiers, weight, category, sales-country, supplier, and material facts. Keep the RoHS technical conclusion and -responsibility conclusion separately approved and sourced.
Lead with RoHS when the decision concerns EEE scope, restricted substances, homogeneous materials, exemptions, supplier substance evidence, technical documentation, EU declaration, CE marking, or market-surveillance proof.
RoHS source for scope, Article 4 substance restrictions, economic-operator duties, declaration, CE marking, and enforcement.
requirements of this Directive
Lead with WEEE when the decision concerns six-category scope, exclusions, producer status, distance selling, registration, financing, marking, user or treatment information, take-back, collection, reporting, treatment, recovery, or national end-of-life systems.
Articles 2-3 and 5-17 support routing producer status, distance sales, registration, financing, marking, take-back, reporting, treatment, and recovery to the WEEE workstream.
For a live launch, close RoHS conformity and the pre-market WEEE duties for every destination Member State. Keep post-market reporting, financing, collection, and treatment controls active for the applicable periods.
Commission overview supporting the high-level WEEE contrast.
collection and recycling
Primary question
RoHS
Does the EEE, including covered cables or spare parts, contain Annex II substances above the allowed homogeneous-material concentration values or rely on an Annex III or IV exemption?
RoHS source for Article 4 restrictions on EEE, cables, spare parts, homogeneous-material concentration values, and Annex III/IV exemptions.
maximum concentration value by weight
WEEE
Is the item EEE within the WEEE Directive's six-category open scope, does an Article 2 exclusion apply, who is the producer in each Member State, and what registration, financing, marking, take-back, information, reporting, collection, treatment, and recovery duties follow?
Articles 2-3 and Annexes III-IV support the WEEE scope, exclusions, six categories, and producer definition.
Operational implication
Use RoHS to answer product-composition conformity. Use the WEEE Directive plus national transposition and register rules to answer producer-responsibility and waste-stage duties.
Commission overview supporting the high-level WEEE contrast.
collection and recycling
Who owns the work
RoHS
RoHS names economic-operator duties for manufacturers, authorised representatives, importers, and distributors, with manufacturer duties at the centre of technical documentation, EU declaration, CE marking, corrective action, and authority response.
RoHS source for definitions of manufacturer, authorised representative, importer, distributor, and economic operators plus Articles 7-12 duties.
‘economic operators’ means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor;
WEEE
WEEE centres many duties on the producer, including manufacturers selling under their own brand, own-brand resellers in specified cases, professional importers, and distance sellers established in another Member State or third country that sell directly to users. Distributors also have take-back duties, and authorised representatives can fulfil specified producer duties.
RoHS source for economic-operator obligations and evidence retention.
Obligations of manufacturers
Compliance trigger
RoHS
RoHS is triggered by placing covered EEE on the EU market, including relevant cables and spare parts, subject to exclusions, staged application dates, and exemption rules.
RoHS source for placing-on-market definitions, Article 4 prevention rule, and cables and spare parts treatment.
placing on the market
WEEE
WEEE duties start before waste arises: producer registration, financing, marking, sales reporting, and treatment information attach to placing EEE on a Member State market. Collection, take-back, treatment, recovery, and waste reporting apply when equipment becomes or generates WEEE.
Articles 5, 11-16 and Annexes IX-X support pre-waste registration, financing, marking, reporting, and treatment-information duties and waste-stage collection, treatment, and recovery duties.
Operational implication
Ask intake in three parts: product scope and placement, producer status by Member State and channel, and the end-of-life system that will collect, finance, report, and treat the WEEE.
Commission overview supporting the high-level WEEE trigger distinction.
collection and recycling
Core obligations
RoHS
RoHS work centres on restricted-substance conformity, technical documentation, internal production control, EU declaration of conformity, CE marking, production-change controls, registers of non-conforming EEE and recalls, and authority-request responses.
Official source for EN IEC 63000:2018 technical-documentation reference.
satisfies the requirements
WEEE
WEEE requires Member State producer registers, reporting, financing of household or non-household WEEE under the applicable rules, separate collection and distributor take-back, treatment and recovery, the Annex IX crossed-out wheeled-bin mark, and information for users and treatment facilities.
Articles 5, 8, 11-16 and Annexes IX-X support registration, reporting, financing, take-back, treatment, recovery, marking, and information duties.
Operational implication
Keep a WEEE checklist by country and reporting period beside the RoHS release checklist. The WEEE file needs registrations, scheme or financing evidence, reports, marks, take-back arrangements, and treatment information rather than RoHS CE evidence.
RoHS source for distinct conformity artifacts and authority-response obligations.
provide it with all the information
Evidence and records
RoHS
RoHS evidence should include scope analysis, BOM and homogeneous-material assessment, supplier declarations or material declarations, test or assessment rationale, exemption register, EN IEC 63000 technical file, EU declaration of conformity, CE marking check, and change-control history.
Official source for RoHS technical documentation standard reference.
assessing materials, components and electrical
WEEE
WEEE evidence should identify the product and six-category classification, exclusions considered, producer and authorised representative per Member State, registration number, quantities placed on the market, waste collected and treated, financing or scheme participation, take-back controls, marks, user information, and treatment information.
Articles 5 and 11-16 and Annexes III, IX and X support WEEE category, registration, quantities, financing, take-back, marking, user-information, and treatment-information records.
Operational implication
Keep a shared product evidence index, but tag every record by law, Member State, producer identity, reporting period, product category, and quantity basis. A BOM can support both workstreams, while a RoHS declaration proves no WEEE registration or financing fact.
Official source for harmonised technical-documentation standard.
EN IEC 63000:2018
Timing and review cadence
RoHS
RoHS timing includes placement-on-market dates, staged scope dates for certain equipment, 10-year retention for technical documentation and the EU declaration, and exemption renewal timing.
Commission implementation source for current exemption decision timing and renewal process notes.
18 to 24 months
WEEE
The WEEE Directive moved to six-category open scope on 15 August 2018. Registration must be in place as required by each Member State, reports follow the national register's frequency and format, and producers must supply preparation-for-reuse and treatment information within one year after a new type of EEE is placed on the market.
Articles 2, 15 and 16 support six-category open scope from 15 August 2018, national registration and reporting, and treatment information within one year of placing a new EEE type on the market.
Operational implication
Maintain WEEE clocks by Member State for registration, reporting, scheme, financing, and treatment-information duties. Do not confuse them with RoHS substance dates, exemption renewals, or 10-year technical-file retention.
Commission implementation source for exemption reassessment and renewal timing.
remain valid until a decision
Enforcement and corrective action
RoHS
RoHS provides for market surveillance, authority requests, corrective measures, withdrawal or recall where appropriate, and Member State penalties that must be effective, proportionate, and dissuasive.
RoHS source for corrective measures, withdrawal, recall, authority requests, market surveillance, and penalties.
effective, proportionate and dissuasive
WEEE
Member States determine WEEE inspections and penalties and must provide for effective, proportionate, and dissuasive penalties. A response may concern missing registration or reporting, financing, marking, take-back, treatment, shipment, or other nationally implemented duties.
Articles 23-24 support inspections and effective, proportionate, and dissuasive penalties for national WEEE implementation.
Operational implication
Prepare separate authority-response packs. The WEEE pack should identify the Member State, producer or other actor, registration and reporting record, quantities, scheme or financing evidence, take-back and treatment chain, marking, suspected breach, corrective action, and appeal route.
RoHS Article 1 links hazardous-substance restriction to environmentally sound recovery and disposal of waste EEE.
environmentally sound recovery and disposal
WEEE
WEEE controls the collection, treatment, recovery, financing, information, registration, and reporting system for waste EEE. RoHS reduces hazardous substances before EEE becomes waste, which can support safer recovery and disposal, but does not satisfy those WEEE duties.
Articles 5 and 7-16 support the separate collection, treatment, recovery, financing, information, registration, and reporting system for WEEE.
Operational implication
Share product identifiers, weight, category, sales-country, supplier, and material facts. Keep the RoHS technical conclusion and -responsibility conclusion separately approved and sourced.
RoHS source showing the waste-management objective without converting RoHS into WEEE compliance.
waste EEE
Practical decision rule
RoHS
Lead with RoHS when the decision concerns EEE scope, restricted substances, homogeneous materials, exemptions, supplier substance evidence, technical documentation, EU declaration, CE marking, or market-surveillance proof.
RoHS source for scope, Article 4 substance restrictions, economic-operator duties, declaration, CE marking, and enforcement.
requirements of this Directive
WEEE
Lead with WEEE when the decision concerns six-category scope, exclusions, producer status, distance selling, registration, financing, marking, user or treatment information, take-back, collection, reporting, treatment, recovery, or national end-of-life systems.
Articles 2-3 and 5-17 support routing producer status, distance sales, registration, financing, marking, take-back, reporting, treatment, and recovery to the WEEE workstream.
Operational implication
For a live launch, close RoHS conformity and the pre-market WEEE duties for every destination Member State. Keep post-market reporting, financing, collection, and treatment controls active for the applicable periods.
Commission overview supporting the high-level WEEE contrast.
collection and recycling
Practical decision rule
How should teams decide between RoHS and WEEE?
If the question is about substances in EEE before market placement, start with RoHS scope, Annex II substances, exemptions, EN IEC 63000 documentation, EU declaration, and CE marking.
If the question is about waste-stage collection, recycling, treatment, registration, reporting, or producer responsibility, collect WEEE-specific sources before making a legal conclusion.
If the same product triggers both, maintain one product fact record but two cited compliance conclusions.
Consolidated source for routing producer status, registration, reporting, financing, take-back, collection, treatment, and recovery to the separate WEEE workstream.
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Section 1
Start with the legal question
For RoHS, ask whether the item is electrical or electronic equipment within Directive 2011/65/EU, whether an exclusion applies, and whether the product or its cables and spare parts are placed on the EU market under a relevant timing rule. The Directive defines EEE by dependence on electric currents or electromagnetic fields and voltage limits, and it defines homogeneous material as material that cannot be mechanically separated into different materials.
The WEEE Directive applies producer-responsibility rules to EEE and waste EEE. Since 15 August 2018 its open scope uses six Annex III categories, subject to Article 2 exclusions such as certain military and space equipment, filament bulbs, large-scale stationary industrial tools, large-scale fixed installations, non-road mobile machinery available exclusively for professional use, specified transport, and certain medical devices expected to be infective before end of life. Depending on the product, sales channel, actor, and Member State, the work can include producer registration, reporting quantities placed on the market and waste collected or treated, financing household or non-household WEEE, separate collection and take-back arrangements, treatment information, and the crossed-out wheeled-bin marking. National transposition and registers determine the operating process, so a RoHS declaration cannot close those duties.
Use RoHS for product design, material declarations, restricted-substance assessment, exemptions, CE marking, EU declaration of conformity, and market-surveillance evidence.
Assess producer registration, collection, recycling, treatment, financing, marking, and national reporting duties separately under the applicable WEEE rules.
Where one product triggers both topics, keep one shared product fact pattern but tag each action to RoHS, WEEE, or an unresolved source gap.
Consolidated RoHS source for EEE scope, exclusions, homogeneous-material limits, economic-operator duties, technical documentation, EU declaration, CE marking, exemptions, and penalties.
Binding WEEE source for producer definitions, separate collection and take-back, treatment and recovery, financing, marking, producer registration, information, and reporting. Member States implement these duties through national systems.
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Section 2
Build the RoHS evidence file first
RoHS evidence should let a reviewer trace the product from scope decision to material assessment to declaration. Article 7 requires manufacturers to design and manufacture EEE in line with Article 4, draw up technical documentation, carry out internal production control, draw up the EU declaration of conformity, affix the CE marking, and keep the technical documentation and EU declaration for 10 years after the EEE is placed on the market.
EN IEC 63000:2018 is the harmonised standard reference for RoHS technical documentation in Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/659. Supplier declarations, material declarations, test results, exemption justifications, and change-control records should be organised so they support that technical documentation rather than sitting in disconnected procurement files.
Record the EEE category, exclusions considered, cables or spare parts included, restricted substances checked, and homogeneous-material basis for each conclusion.
Track the ten restricted substances named by the Commission overview: lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, PBB, PBDE, DEHP, BBP, DBP, and DIBP.
Keep exemption evidence separate from ordinary conformity evidence, because exemptions are time-limited, reassessed, and tied to Annex III or Annex IV applications.
Commission implementation source for exemption procedure, renewal timing, reassessment, and review steps.
Exemptions are limited in time
Recommended next step
Separate RoHS proof from WEEE questions
This comparison helps keep product-composition evidence, exemption tracking, supplier declarations, CE documentation, and end-of-life questions in the right workstreams.
A RoHS compliance pack does not close every environmental duty for electronics. It can support restricted-substance conformity, but it does not establish WEEE registration or country-level waste obligations.
A useful decision record has four columns: product fact, RoHS conclusion, WEEE conclusion, and supporting source. For WEEE, record the six-category classification, Article 2 exclusions considered, producer basis in each Member State, distance-sales route, national registration number, reporting period, financing or scheme evidence, marking, take-back route, and treatment-information owner. This lets product, quality, procurement, environmental, and legal teams reuse the same product facts without overstating what the RoHS evidence proves.
If the immediate blocker is CE marking, EU declaration, restricted-substance evidence, or an exemption, treat RoHS as the lead workstream.
If the immediate blocker is collection, recycling, waste treatment, producer registration, national reporting, financing, take-back, or the crossed-out wheeled-bin mark, use the WEEE Directive and the current law and register for each Member State.
If both apply, run parallel workstreams with shared product facts and separate legal conclusions. Reassess after a sales-country change, new distance-sales route, product-category change, branding change, take-back or scheme change, or amendment to national registration and reporting rules.
Consolidated RoHS legal text used for scope, exclusions, homogeneous-material limits, economic-operator duties, technical documentation, EU declaration, CE marking, exemptions, and penalties. Consolidations are documentation tools; the Official Journal acts are the authentic legal texts.
Consolidated RoHS source for EEE scope, exclusions, homogeneous-material limits, economic-operator duties, technical documentation, EU declaration, CE marking, exemptions, and penalties.
Binding RoHS source for Article 4 substance restrictions, Article 7 manufacturer duties, Article 13 EU declaration, Article 15 CE marking, and Article 16 presumption of conformity.
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Binding RoHS source for distinguishing product-composition and conformity duties from waste-management questions.
RoHS source for Article 4 restrictions on EEE, cables, spare parts, homogeneous-material concentration values, and Annex III/IV exemptions.
RoHS source for product-composition conformity and scope boundaries.
RoHS source for Article 4 restrictions and scope.
RoHS source for definitions of manufacturer, authorised representative, importer, distributor, and economic operators plus Articles 7-12 duties.
RoHS source for economic-operator obligations and evidence retention.
RoHS source for placing-on-market definitions, Article 4 prevention rule, and cables and spare parts treatment.
RoHS source for placement and scope triggers.
RoHS source for Article 7 manufacturer obligations, Article 13 EU declaration, Article 15 CE marking, and Article 16 presumption of conformity.
RoHS source for distinct conformity artifacts and authority-response obligations.
RoHS source for technical documentation, declaration retention, identification, non-conforming-product registers, and authority responses.
RoHS source for retention and traceability duties.
RoHS source for evidence and retention requirements.
RoHS source for application dates, retention periods, and exemption renewal timing.
RoHS source for corrective measures, withdrawal, recall, authority requests, market surveillance, and penalties.
RoHS source for authority requests and corrective action.
RoHS source for enforcement and penalties.
RoHS Article 1 links hazardous-substance restriction to environmentally sound recovery and disposal of waste EEE.
RoHS source showing the waste-management objective without converting RoHS into WEEE compliance.
RoHS source for scope, Article 4 substance restrictions, economic-operator duties, declaration, CE marking, and enforcement.
RoHS source for placing-on-market and conformity duties.
RoHS source for product-composition conformity and market-placement duties.
"restriction of the use of hazardous substances"
More quoted passages
"keep the technical documentation and the EU declaration"
"without prejudice to the requirements of Union legislation"
"maximum concentration value by weight"
"shall apply without prejudice"
"EEE placed on the market"
"‘economic operators’ means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor;"
"Obligations of manufacturers"
"placing on the market"
"made available on the market"
"draw up an EU declaration of conformity"
"provide it with all the information"
"for 10 years after"
"identify the following to the market surveillance authorities"
Consolidated WEEE source for scope, six-category classification, exclusions, producer and distance-seller roles, registration, reporting, financing, take-back, marking, treatment information, collection, treatment, recovery, inspections, and penalties. Consolidations are documentation tools; the Official Journal acts are the authentic legal texts.
Articles 2-3 and Annexes III-IV support the WEEE scope, exclusions, six categories, and producer definition.
Articles 3, 5, 12-14 and 16-17 support producer, distributor, distance-seller, and authorised-representative roles and duties.
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Articles 5, 11-16 and Annexes IX-X support pre-waste registration, financing, marking, reporting, and treatment-information duties and waste-stage collection, treatment, and recovery duties.
Articles 5, 8, 11-16 and Annexes IX-X support registration, reporting, financing, take-back, treatment, recovery, marking, and information duties.
Articles 5 and 11-16 and Annexes III, IX and X support WEEE category, registration, quantities, financing, take-back, marking, user-information, and treatment-information records.
Articles 2, 15 and 16 support six-category open scope from 15 August 2018, national registration and reporting, and treatment information within one year of placing a new EEE type on the market.
Articles 23-24 support inspections and effective, proportionate, and dissuasive penalties for national WEEE implementation.
Articles 5 and 7-16 support the separate collection, treatment, recovery, financing, information, registration, and reporting system for WEEE.
Articles 2-3 and 5-17 support routing producer status, distance sales, registration, financing, marking, take-back, reporting, treatment, and recovery to the WEEE workstream.
Consolidated source for routing producer status, registration, reporting, financing, take-back, collection, treatment, and recovery to the separate WEEE workstream.
Binding WEEE source for producer definitions, separate collection and take-back, treatment and recovery, financing, marking, producer registration, information, and reporting. Member States implement these duties through national systems.