Prohibition on showing the costs of financing the collection, treatment and environmentally sound disposal of WEEE from private households
40.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), no person shall show a purchaser at the time of sale of new EEE the costs of financing the collection, treatment and environmentally sound disposal of WEEE from private households.
(2) A producer may show a purchaser at the time of sale of new EEE the costs of collection, treatment and environmentally sound disposal of WEEE from private households that arises from EEE put on the market before 13th August 2005—
(a)in relation to EEE within category 1 of Schedule 1 until 13th February 2013; and
(b)in relation to EEE within categories 2 to 10 of Schedule 1 until 13th February 2011.
(3) The costs mentioned in paragraph (2) shall not exceed the actual costs incurred.
(4) A person shall be guilty of an offence if he intentionally obstructs any producer from exercising his right under regulation 40(2).