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January 2025 WEEE reforms: EEE waste status and end-of-waste guidance, updated import/export controls, and Extended Producer Responsibility obligations

Published on: 02 January 2025

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Table of contents
  • Guidance 1: When electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) becomes waste
  • Guidance 2: Importing and exporting WEEE
  • Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
  • The future for EEE and WEEE
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Guidance 1: When electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) becomes waste

Taking effect on 1 January 2025, this guidance supports a range of organisations, such as approved authorised treatment facilities, designated collection facilities, producer compliance schemes, groups preparing used EEE for re-use, and waste carriers. It sets out what counts as EEE and indicates the point at which it can become waste. Under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations 2013, SI 2013/3113, EEE means equipment that relies on electric currents or electromagnetic fields to operate correctly, together with equipment intended for the generation, transfer and measurement of those currents and fields. Before deciding if EEE is liable to become waste, the principles of re-use and the Circular Economy should be weighed. These re-use considerations should come first in any such assessment...

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