Legislation & Obligations

WEEE Legislation	Batteries Legislation	Packaging Legislation

Businesses who place products on the market in Europe must take increasing responsibility for these products once they have reached end-of-life. EU legislation, including the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), Packaging and Packaging Waste and Batteries Directives places responsibility on producers to register their businesses with the regulatory authorities in EU Member States and to be partly or wholly responsible for costs for collection and recycling or recovery at end-of-life.

Many of the requirements of these Directives are implemented differently in each of the 27 EU Member States. A business selling its products across Europe will therefore need to invest considerable time and effort to understand their potential legal exposure to 27 EU Member State national regulations and to put in place practical measures for compliance.

In addition, the new EU REACH Regulation introduces requirements on all suppliers in a product supply chain (components, sub-assemblies, finished equipment etc) to provide declarations for substances of very high concern and to comply with substance restrictions from June 2009. The REACH Regulation puts further pressure on businesses who must already manage substance declarations from their supply chains to meet legal obligations for RoHS, Batteries and Packaging compliance.

• WEEE & RoHS: Are my products affected?
• Batteries: Am I a batteries producer?
• Batteries: Design for removability requirements
• Batteries: Obligations on batteries producers
• WEEE: Obligations on B2B producers
• RoHS: Obligations on B2B producers
• WEEE & RoHS: Guidelines for CEOs, technical and marketing directors
• Packaging: Responsibilities for compliance
• Packaging: Obligations for compliance
• WEEE Legislation
• Batteries Legislation
• Packaging Legislation

For further information, please contact Howard Stimpson
Senior Consultant in WEEE, RoHS & EcoDesign on +44 (0)1225 748420