The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2006

Scheme obligations

6.  After regulation 28, insert the following new regulation 28A—

“Reporting: financing of WEEE from private households

28A.— (1) Each operator of a scheme that is approved under regulation 41 for the first compliance period shall provide a report to the appropriate authority on or before 31st December 2007.

(2) The report referred to in paragraph (1) shall—

(a) be in writing; and

(b) explain how his scheme members could most effectively—

(i) assume responsibility for financing the costs of the collection, treatment, recovery and environmentally sound disposal of WEEE from private households deposited at designated collection facilities relating to the waste from any product that they have put on the market in the United Kingdom after 13th August 2005; and

(ii) provide a guarantee when placing a product on the market in the United Kingdom that ensures that the operations mentioned in sub-paragraph (b)(i) in relation to the waste from that product will be financed.”.