Compliance requirements in Slovenia

WEEE Regulations

Batteries Regulations

Packaging Regulations

WEEE requirements

Registration timescale

20 June 2005

Registration agency

The Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning

Regulations in Slovenian

Batteries requirements

Registration timescale

31 May 2009

Registration Agency

Environment Agency, Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning

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 Individual compliance is permitted although a waste plan must be submitted for approval for individual systems.

Producers of industrial batteries

Individual compliance is permitted although a waste plan must be submitted for approval for individual systems.

Packaging requirements

Obligated parties must register and submit data based on the amount of packaging handled, to the Ministry of Environment.

The deadline for meeting recycling targets in Slovenia is delayed until 31 December 2012 in accordance with the amendment to the revised Directive, 2005/20/EC.

Obligated parties must ensure:

• regular collection of the packaging component of municipal waste from the collection centres of the municipal waste management service's contractors;
• collection of commercial and industrial packaging waste from end-users or acceptance of this material at a collection point;
• the reuse, reprocessing or disposal of the collected packaging waste.

Packaging producers, importers, packer/fillers and retailers who comply individually must obtain Environment Ministry approval. They must submit annual reports on their activities. The packaging waste collected must be reused, recovered or disposed of by the end of the calendar year following the year of collection. The Decree sets out a number of requirements that companies carrying out their own waste handling must fulfill, and provides that they must pay a waste packaging handling company in respect of any packaging that ends up in the handling company's collection system.

Thresholds

The take-back obligation does not apply to:

• Packers / fillers, if none of the quantities of packaging material they place on the market exceeds 100 kg paper and board, 300 kg glass, 80 kg plastics, 30 kg metals, 100 kg wood and 50 kg in total of all other packaging materials per year;
• retailers, provided their suppliers provide a written declaration that (i) take-back has already been taken care of, or (ii) the packaging bears a special symbol to denote that a waste packaging handling company guarantees the packaging's inclusion in its system;
• deposit-bearing returnable packaging (and closures and labels put into circulation with returnable packaging, provided they do not account for more than 5% of the total weight); or
• packaging in which goods are packed or filled at point-of-sale

For further information, please contact Aidan Turnbull
Head of WEEE, RoHS & EcoDesign on +44 (0)1225 748420