The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2013

Financing obligation: Collection of WEEE from users other than private households U.K.

47.—(1) Where WEEE from a user other than a private household arises from EEE placed on the market in the United Kingdom before 13th August 2005 and regulation 12(1)(b) does not apply, the final user of that WEEE will finance the costs of its collection, treatment, recovery and environmentally sound disposal.

(2) Nothing will prevent a user other than a private household from concluding an agreement with a third party whereby the parties to the agreement make alternative arrangements between themselves to finance the costs of collection, treatment, recovery and environmentally sound disposal of WEEE.

(3) In respect of any WEEE which he is responsible for financing the costs of under paragraph (1), a user other than a private household [F1 must] ensure that such WEEE is—

(a) treated at an ATF, or

(b) exported by an approved exporter for treatment outside the United Kingdom.

(4) Paragraph (3) does not apply to WEEE reused as a whole appliance.

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in reg. 47(3) substituted (25.7.2014) by virtue of The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment and Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1771), regs. 1(b), 3(3), Sch. 2 Pt. 1

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 47 in force at 1.1.2014, see reg. 1(2)