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WEEE PROPER TREATMENT LITHUANIA‘S EXPERIENCE. Dalius Krinickas Director of Waste Department, Ministry of Environment, Lithuania Tallinn, October 1, 2015. LT situation. 10 68 producers and importers Individually or collectively (organizations) 3 organizations acting (no individual actions)
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WEEE PROPER TREATMENTLITHUANIA‘S EXPERIENCE Dalius Krinickas Director of Waste Department, Ministry of Environment, Lithuania Tallinn, October 1, 2015
LT situation • 1068 producers and importers • Individually or collectively (organizations) • 3 organizations acting (no individual actions) • 104 collecting companies • 25 recyclers / 10 exporters • Organizations must have a license • Guaranty should be provided to get a license • Agreements with municipalities • Agreements with waste treatment companies
Goals and Targets • Goal – 4 kg / per 1 person • Quantitative targets for 2015 / 2016 – 45% __________________________________________ Targets should be achieved according to the amount of electronics placed on the market for business purposes
Some figures, 2013 • Placed into the market – 27,5 thousand t • Collected – 16,2 thousand t • Treated – 15,9 thousand t • Recovery / recycling rates – 77,2% / 70,4%
WEEE Treatment Requirements Main pillars: • Placing on the market – first step of treatment • Labelling – obligatory to put into the market • Collection – separate, at least 1 place, not less then 200 t • Transportation – to the treatment sites • Treatment – storage, equipped places, installations • Information – to society, waste treatment companies • Traceability – to knowwhere, whenandhow • Accounting – alltheactionsonwastetreatment • Cooperation – public, private, enforcement • Information sharing –internal, external
Responsibilities • Producers / importers: • Registration in the state registry of producers and importers • Organize proper treatment • Financing • Inform society and waste treatment companies • Perform accounting • Implement targets • Reporting quarterly • Public institutions: • Set goals and targets • Coordination of institutions’ actions • Control of producers and waste treatment companies • Licenses to producers and importers • Permits to waste treatment companies • Accounting • Monitoring Partnership and shared responsibility (each institution recognizes its responsibility for the environmental protection objectives and acts according to available measures).
Foreseen improvements • Review of Licensing requirements of organizations (autumn–winter, 2015) • Enhance Cooperation with producers, public institutions, enforcement institutions (working groups starting in October 2015) • Analyze different codification, information (together with Customs, State Tax Inspectorate, 2015–2016) • Prepare National waste shipment plan (project in the early 2016) • Implement electronic accounting system (2018)
Licensing • Separate regulation of issue, correction, suspension, repeal of licenses, deadlines for infringements; • Terms for answers, procedures, possibility to extent terms for consideration and removal of violations; • Set the order of the imposition of fines (percentage from the annual turnover); • Possibility to perform all procedures electronically.
Cooperation Working platforms: • MoE, EPA, Organisations, Confederation of Industrialists, Association of Municipalities, Ministry of Economy, Confederation of Employers: issues to discuss – licensing, agreements with municipalities, reuse, recycling standards; • MoE, EPA, REPD, Customs, State Tax Inspectorate, Police department: issues to discuss – codification, reporting/tax/placing into the market; • Proposal for LV, EE to prepare technical guidelines on waste shipment (during Senior Officials Meeting in Lithuania)
Waste shipment • Implementation of Waste Shipment Regulation; • First project in the early 2016; • Participating institutions: MoE, EPA, State Environmental Protection Survey, Customs, Police Department, State Border Protection Survey, Ministry of Transport, State Road Transport Inspectorate, State Railway Inspectorate; • The result: an effective control, physical check of cargo, cargo inspection from the starting to the last point, operative information sharing.
Accounting • Project consists of the following phases: 1) public procurement – 2015; 2) preparation and submission for EU funding – 2015; 3) development and installation (20 months); • Main aspects: integration of permits, tax, State registry; filling and tracing data in real time; the ability to share and analyze data; an effective data control, convenient; availability 24 h; less mistakes; • Expected launch: 2018 m. I quarter; • The ability to involve producers and importers: testing of demo version.
Thank youContacts: +370(706)63670, +370(673)78865,e-mail: dalius.krinickas@am.lt