Compliance requirements in Portugal
WEEE requirements
Registration timescale
16 August 2005
Registration agency
National Waste Institute (INR Instituto dos Residous)
Regulations in English Regulations in Portuguese
Batteries requirements
Registration timescale
Not specified, but by 26 September 2009 all producers must have transferred their obligation to manage waste batteries to a collective or individual system.
Registration Agency
Producers and collective systems must establish a producer register. Producers may join a register already established for other waste streams (e.g. ANREE for WEEE).Registration, collection and recycling obligations for batteries producers
Producers of portable batteries
Producers can join a collective scheme and transfer legal responsibility to the scheme. No schemes yet to receive approval from the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA). Individual compliance is permitted but systems must be approved by APA.
Producers of industrial batteries
Individual compliance is permitted.Operating conditions for individual systems are identical to those for collective systems and therefore few individual systems are expected.
Packaging requirements
The Decree-Law set up a ‘follow-up committee' to supervise compliance with the law. CAGERE is chaired by an Environment Ministry representative and is composed of representatives of the four key ministries (Environment, Agriculture, Industry and Energy, and Trade and Tourism), a representative of the National Association of Municipalities and a representative of each association covering the economic sectors involved.
Obligated parties must register and submit data based on the amount of packaging handled to CAGERE.
The deadline for meeting recycling targets in Portugal is delayed until 31 December 2011 in accordance with the amendment to the revised Directive, 2005/20/EC.
Producers and importers are obliged to achieve the specified recovery and recycling targets. These obligations can be fulfilled individually or jointly through an authorised recovery organisation.
If a producer joins an authorised recovery organisation, the obligations are passed onto this organisation. Producers and recovery organisations must register with the relevant authorities.
Individual producers or recovery organisations that do not meet the required levels of recovery and recycling must pay a product charge. The product fee is calculated separately for each type of packaging.
Thresholds
The threshold obligation for business end-users is if over 1100 litres of packaging is handled per week. Below this volume it can be collected as household waste.
Meeting the requirements
Our services help you meet your producer obligations in all member states.
For further information, please contact Aidan Turnbull
Head of WEEE, RoHS & EcoDesign on +44 (0)1225 748420
