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Pavel Drahovzal The Union of Towns and Municipalities of the Czech Republic, Legislative Section

Take-back system for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in the Czech Republic Conference on Waste management, Szigetszentmiklós, 13th - 15th June 2007. Pavel Drahovzal The Union of Towns and Municipalities of the Czech Republic, Legislative Section. History.

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Pavel Drahovzal The Union of Towns and Municipalities of the Czech Republic, Legislative Section

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  1. Take-back system for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in the Czech RepublicConference on Waste management, Szigetszentmiklós, 13th - 15th June 2007 Pavel Drahovzal The Union of Towns and Municipalities of the Czech Republic, Legislative Section

  2. History • - 13th August 2005 - treatment of WEEE in EU-member states must comply with EU-directives • - 2002/95/EC on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment • - 2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) • - in the Czech Republic - corresponding changes were implemented in Act on Waste No. 185/2001 Coll. and in related regulations • - main objectivesare1) prevention of creation of hazardous waste, 2) minimalization of amount of hazardous waste in unsorted household waste, 3) increased reusing and recycling of WEEE

  3. Principles of the Czech take-back system for WEEE (1) • Producers of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) are responsible for creating and running the take-back system. • Each producer must be signed in the List of producers (kept by the Czech Ministry of Environment). • Distributors and last sellers (shops, etc.) have also certain duties.

  4. Principles of the Czech take-back system for WEEE (2) • 4. Producer are obliged to create a net of special places where consumers can hand over their WEEE to producer. • 5. There must be a special place in each municipality where one stable shop selling EEE is operating. • 6. Consumer can leave WEEE only at these special places or hand it over directly to processer of WEEE (under the sanction till 20 000 CzK )

  5. Principles of the Czech take-back system for WEEE (3) • 7. Created system has to prefer reusing of WEEE to recycling it at the processer. • - only if it is not possible to reuse WEEE then it may recycled; • - from 1st January 2009 binding quotas for recycling of WEEE; • - EEE are divided into ten groups;

  6. How can producer fulfill its obligations? (1) • 1) individually on his own costs; • 2) in cooperation with other producer(s); • 3) delegating duties to artificial person especially founded for this objective and providing these duties for two or more producers • (responsibility for fulfilling duties is still on producers)

  7. How can producer fulfill its obligations? (2) • - majority of producers fill their duties by delegating to another artificial person; • about 1 000 producers, mainly small, fill their duties alone or in cooperation with another producer; • small/high percentage of „free-riders“

  8. Financing • - date of market introduction of EEE is relevant (before or after date 13th August 2005) and also choices made by producer (see slides above) • - treatment with „old“ WEEE is financed by special charge which is paid by consumers when buying new EEE; • - income from this charge is divided between producers and artifical persons which treat „old“ WEEE; • - expenses for treatment with „new“ EEE are covered by relevant producers of this group of EEE;

  9. Current status in Czech republic • 5 big operators (artificial persons) • - ASEKOL (3. IT and telecomunications equipment, 4. consumer equipment, 7. toys, leisure and sports equipment, 10. automatic dispensers) • - ELEKTROWIN (1. large and 2. small household appliances, 6. electrical and electronic tools) • - EKOLAMP (5. lighting equipment) • - RETELA (9.monitoring and control instruments) • - REMA (8. medical devices)

  10. Some practical problems • 1) inadequate legislation • - definition of „completeness“ and „non completeness“ of hand overed WEEE, • - bad conditions for running the system • 2) insufficient number of special places; • 3) poor controlling system;

  11. The role of municipalities • 1) WEEE is not a part of household waste, municipalities does not have to take care of it; • 2) Municipalities make contracts with artificial persons about rent of municipality´s collecting grange (point) and about sharing the municipal waste management with them; • 3) Municipalities inform their citizens about take-back system;

  12. Thank you for your attention.www.smocr.cz

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