Historical waste
Each producer's responsibility for the recycling of historical waste (products sold before 13 August 2005) should be determined annually and be based on the market shares of the producers during that year. The obligation should be related to the volume or weight of waste electric and electronic equipment.
Producers should have the option to make the cost of recycling historic waste visible separately to the consumer when selling similar new products, however, producers must never be forced to make the recycling cost visible.
Any fee collected should be handled by the producer and used to finance the required take-back and recycling services for historical waste.
