The WEEE Directive, formally the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive, is a European Union directive, first adopted in 2003, that sets collection, recycling, and recovery targets for electrical and electronic products at the end of their useful life. It requires producers of electrical and electronic equipment to finance the collection and environmentally sound treatment of waste equipment, often through extended producer responsibility schemes, and it obliges member states to provide accessible collection facilities for consumers. The Directive was recast in 2012 to raise collection targets and broaden its scope to nearly all categories of electrical and electronic equipment.
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EraSourced to the subject's own accountOriginal directive became European law in February 2003; recast and renumbered as Directive 2012/19/EU. 1 Promulgated BySourced to the subject's own accountEuropean Union (European Parliament and Council, as an EU Directive). 1 Jurisdiction ScopeSourced to the subject's own accountEuropean Union member states, implemented into each state's national law. 1 Regulatory DomainSourced to the subject's own accountCollection, recycling and recovery targets for waste electrical and electronic equipment. 1 Jurisdiction Scope
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The Court of Justice of the European Union is the final interpreter of the WEEE Directive as EU law.
The WEEE Directive governs end-of-life treatment of electronic equipment whose hazardous-substance content is regulated under REACH, the two regimes forming a linked EU electronics/chemicals framework alongside RoHS.
RoHS and the WEEE Directive are closely linked EU directives that together form the core of the EU regulatory approach to electronic product safety and recycling.
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European Union directive, applied across member states whose domestic systems are predominantly civil law.
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The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive) is a European Community Directive, numbered 2012/19/EU, concerned with waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). Together with the RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU, it became European Law in February 2003. The WEEE Directive set collection, recycling and recovery targets for all types of electrical goods, with a minimum rate of 4 kilograms (9 lb) per head of population per annum recovered for recycling by 2009.
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The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive) is a European Community Directive, numbered 2012/19/EU, concerned with waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
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Rene David and John E.C. Brierley, Stevens and Sons, 1985In Legal System: Civil Law
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