Nicosia, Maria Krasteva Waste streams expert

1. General requirements of the draft Regulation on the management of waste from electrical and electronic equipment. Producer’s responsibilities Nicosia, Maria Krasteva Waste streams expert

2. Why a Directive on WEEE? The amount of WEEE generated in the World is growing rapidly • The content of hazardous components in electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) is a major concern during the waste management phase • Recycling of WEEE is not undertaken to a sufficient extent

3. Main topics of the presentation 1.Main objectives of the regulation 2. Scope 3. Affected parties 4. Targets for collection 5. System for collection 6. Targets for recycling 7. Permits and technical standards for the sites for collection and treatment 8. Obligations of producers/importers 9. Extended producer’s responsibilities

4. Main objectives of the regulation • Lays dawn measures to protect the environment and human health by preventing or reducing the adverse impacts of the generation and management of waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) • Aim to achieve the improvement in the environmental performance of all of the economic operators involved in the life cycle of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) and, especially, the operators directly involved in the treatment of WEEE

5. “Electrical and electronic equipment” or ‘EEE’ means equipment which: • is dependent on electric currents or electromagnetic fields in order to work properly and • equipment for the generation, transfer and measurement of such currents and fields and designed for use with a voltage rating not exceeding 1 000 volts for alternating current and 1 500 volts for direct current;

6. Scope of the regulation 10 indicative categories: 1.Large Household Appliances 2.Small Household Appliances 3.IT and Telecommunications Equipment 4.Consumer Equipment 5.Lighting Equipment 6.Electrical and Electronic Tools 7.Toys, Leisure and Sports Equipment 8.Medical Devices 9.Monitoring and Control Instruments 10.Automatic Vending Dispensers

8. What is notcovered as WEEE? • Military equipment • Filament light bulbs • Equipment designed to be send into space • Large scale static industrial tools • Large-scale fixed installations, except any equipment which is not specifically designed and installed as part of those installations • Means of transport for persons or goods, excluding electric two-wheel vehicles which are not type-approved • Non-road mobile machinery made available exclusively for professional use • Equipment specifically designed for the purposes of research and development that is only made available on a business-to-business basis • Medical devices and in vitro diagnostic, where such devices are expected to be infective prior to end of life, and active implantable medical devices

9. Who’s affected? • Competent authority:EPD • Producers/Importers of EEE • Distributors / retailers of EEE • Municipalities • Operators who carry out Collection or/and treatment including recycling and recovery • Consumers

10. Targets for collection • At least four kilograms per inhabitant per year of WEEE from private households shall be collected as follows: • 0.5 kg/inh per year 2014 • 1 kg/inh for year 2015 • 1.5 kg/inh for year 2016 • 2 kg/inh for year 2017 • 3 kg/inh for year 2018 • 45 % from the average weight of EEE placed on the market in the three preceding years in TCC. • 65 % from the average weight of EEE placed on the market in the three preceding years in TCC, or alternatively 85 % of WEEE generated on the territory of TCC.

11. System for collection of WEEE • Ensure that the disposal of WEEE as unsorted municipal waste is minimised and a high level of separate collection of WEEE is achieved Way of collection: • Existing collection points (junk yards) • Distributors chain – existing shops • For all retail outlets the retailer must take back any small item of WEEE in-store at no charge to the consumer • At least one collection point per 15 000 inhabitants Cost for final holders • Final holders can return WEEE at least free of charge Authorization of the site for collection • Sites of the collection shall comply with technical standards according the draft regulation and shall obtain the permits

12. What does WEEE consist of? • Ferrous Metal (Iron, stainless steel) • Non-Ferrous Metal (aluminium, copper) • Plastics • Printed circuit boards • Batteries • Capacitors • Liquid crystal displays • Cathode ray tubes • Mercury switches

13. Large white goods (category I) - average content –estimation of category composition

14. Category II small household appliances-average content - estimation of category composition

16. Permits of the operators who collect and treat WEEE • Any establishment or undertaking who collect or/and transport ( including Distributors of EEE) WEEE or parts of WEEE shall hold the permit granted by the EPD • Any establishment or undertaking carrying out treatment operations as well as the storage of WEEE shall hold a valid permit granted from the EPD • Applied technologies on the sites for treatment shall be carry out in a way to ensure achievement of targets • The permit shall include all conditions, necessary for compliance with technical requirements pursuant the draft Regulation • Treatment plants need to be able to demonstrate these recycling rates are achieved

19. Obligations of producers / importers to provide information • Producers/ Importers or distributors must informed the users about: • their role in contributing to the collection of WEEE, • the requirement not to dispose of WEEE as unsorted municipal waste and to collect such WEEE separately • available collection/return facilities, • Producers/ Importers must provide treatment facilities with all appropriate information to identifycomponents, materials and the location of hazardous substances in the products • Producers / Importers shall provide free of charge information on dismantling and treatment in respect of each type of new EEE put on the marketto reuse centres, treatment and recycling facilities

20. Obligations of producers/importers for labelling and marking • To minimising the disposal of WEEE as unsorted municipal waste and to facilitating its separate collection producers must appropriately mark placed on the market EEE with the symbol • Producer shall identify themselves by a visible, readable and durable mark on the appliance consisting of:  • The name of the physical or legal person and its TCC statistical identification number. • The date of manufacture / put on market after 13 August 2005. • Place of marking: on the equipment, service manual or instruction for use, warranty card or on the packaging

21. Obligations of producers-registration • Each Importers of EEE in TCC, shall be registered in the public register of importers of EEE which will be kept by EPD • The application for registration in the Register of Importers of EEE shall be submitted to the Department within 10 days of the day of EEE were first imported in Turkish Cypriot Community • EPD shall enter the importers into the Register of Importers within 15 days of receipt of the application

22. Types of the equipment according to the year of placing of the market WEEE WEEE • Scheme EEE for use in private households EEE other than use in private households Put on the market after 13.8.2005 Put on the market before 13.8.2005 (historical) Put on the market after 13.8.2005 Put on the market before 13.8.2005 (historical) Waste from his own products Producers/Users other than private households Waste from his own products According to the market share

23. Financial obligation of the producers – for WEEE for use in household • Producers/Importers provide at least for the financing of the collection, treatment, recovery and environmentally sound disposal of WEEE from private households • For products placed on the market later than 13 August 2005, each producer shall be responsible for financing relating to the waste from his own products • The responsibility for the financing of the costs of the management of WEEE from products placed on the market on or before 13 August 2005 (‘historical waste’) shall be borne by importers in proportion to their respective share of the market by type of equipment

24. Obligations for producers/importers of EEE other than private households • Financing of the costs for the collection, treatment, recovery and environmentally sound disposal of WEEE from users other than private households resulting from products placed on the market after 13 August 2005 is to be provided for by producers/importers. • For historical waste being replaced by new equivalent products or by new products fulfilling the same function, the financing of the costs shall be provided for by producers of those products when supplying them. • For other historical waste, the financing of the costs shall be provided for by the users other than private households.

25. Implementation of Extended producers responsibilities • The producer/importers shall get together according to the coordination efforts of the EPD and establish Associations with legal personalities in order to fulfil their requirements on waste collection, transportation, recycling and disposal of waste generated at the end of economic life of their products. (The law on environment) • Fully private bodies (legal entities) should be established to represent the joint collective system of producers. These legal entities will be owned, managed, and supported by the obliged producers. • These legal entities should be authorized by EPD as a operators of the Extended Producer Responsibility System • Obligations of the producers/importers and the rules of running the system and the permit for establishing Extended Producer Responsibility System are set up in the draft WEEE regulation • By granting permission for operation of PRCS the state allows also importers to take responsibility for establishing the system and to finance appropriate activities under certain conditions.

26. Fees - Art.9 (8) of Law on environmnet • The producer of EEE shall pay the fee at the import of the equipment together with all duties. • The fee currently stands at 2 % by the single price of the imported equipment per categories 1, and 3% by the single price of the equipment per categories 2-10 referred to in Annex I •  The fee as defined in Par.2 shall be paid in the account owned by the PRCS and is allowed to be used for covering the cost as follows: • Not less 60% of the money shall be spent to be subsidized the activities of collection and treatment of WEEE • Not more 10% of money shall be spent on information campaigns to raise awareness of citizens and businesses as regards requirements of regulation. • Not more 10% of the money shall be spent on administrative costs for the operation of PRCS. • Not less 20% of the money shall be spent for building up of installation for landfilling of WEEE.

27. Application shall be submitted to EPD Permits for operation of PRCS granted from EPD Annual report for collected and treated WEEE and targets achieved Written decision by EPD whether the operator of PRCS have attained the respective targets and the conditions of the permits

28. Permits for operation of PRCS Attached Documents to the application for permit • The copy of the memorandum (Statute of the legal body) and articles of association • Agreements with operators of authorized treatment facilities (ATF). • The quantity of EEE put on the markets per categories during the previous year by the members of PRCS • The description of the proposed system which will provide for the collection and treatment in accordance with the provisions of these regulations. • The financial plan in relation to the proposed scheme. • The volume (number and weight) of WEEE so treated or projected to be treated

29. Thank you for your attention!Maria Krastevawaste streams expertChamber of commerceNicosia18 April 2013

30. Extended Producer Responsibility Principle ProductDesign &Production Product Distribution Product Use Product End of Life 1. Take-back (incl. safe waste handling & transfrontier shipment) 2. Materials recovery/ recycling 3. Safe disposal of residual wastes 1 1. Authority Notification 2. Labeling 3.Transportation 4. Customer Information 1.Energy Efficiency 2.Product Emission Restrictions 3.Instructions for Safe Use 1. Design Requirements (incl.recycled content) 2. Restrictions on the presence of certain dangerous chemicals 3. Notification/ Registration Requirements

31. Extended producers responsibilities • The concept of Extended Producer Responsibility is typically applied to those product and waste streams that pose high environment risks and generate high costs for collection and treatment: • Hazrdouse substancies are part from EoLV, WEEE, Bateries, waste oils • Manual opretaions are carry out in oreder to avoid the risk for environment and human health • Higher standards for the collection, transportation, storage and treatment should be implemented

32. The collection cost for WEEE in various EU states are as follows: • Belgium - €45 per tonne • Finland - €50 per tonne • Spain - €80 per tonne • Portugal - €26 per tonne • Austria - €57 per tonne (€40/tonne – large appliances; €55/tonne – refrigeration; TVs and monitors €85/tonne; small appliances - €52/tonne; lamps - €430/tonne)