EU WEEE stakeholder consultation: ERP responds

The European Commission is currently evaluating the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE ) Directive and has asked stakeholders for their feedback. The evaluation aims to assess the performance of the Directive and its consistency with the EU’s wider policy objectives.

European Recycling Platform (ERP) has contributed to the consultation through the questionnaire, as well as a position paper that elaborates upon certain aspects in more detail.

Among other points, ERP has highlighted the need to update the calculation method for the collection rate. It recommends that the benchmark for setting the collection rate should be the amount of WEEE that can actually be collected.

The current methodology bases the collection rate on new equipment being put on the market, which does not account for the longer life spans of products (that is also partly driven by increasingly more favourable conditions for repair).

Furthermore, ERP continues to advocate for a functioning intra-European market with greater levels of harmonization, transparency, compliance, and enforcement.

The WEEE Directive entered into force 20 years ago, and Landbell Group’s producer responsibility organisations helped to implement it in 12 European countries.

The Group therefore draws on this experience and expertise to provide guidance and advice that it believes will make the WEEE Directive fit for the future and able to deliver on its goals even more effectively.

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