Activities of Sophie AUCONIE related to 2008/0241(COD)
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Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate)
Amendments (2)
Amendment 119 #
Council position
Article 14 – title
Article 14 – title
Amendment 121 #
Council position
Article 14 – paragraph 1
Article 14 – paragraph 1
1. Member States may require producers to show purchasers, at the time of sale of new products, the costs ofIn order to raise users' awareness, Member States shall ensure that producers of EEE: (a) put in place, in conjunction with distributors, appropriate collection schemes for very small volume WEEE, which (i) enable end-users to discard very small volume WEEE at an accessible and visible collection point in the retailer’s shop; (ii) require retailers to take back very small volume WEEE at no charge; (iii) do not involve any charge to end- users when discarding very small volume WEEE, nor any obligation to buy a new product of the same type. (b) may show purchasers, at the time of sale of new equipment, the differing costs associated with collection, treatment and disposal of waste in an environmentally sound way. The costs mentioned shall not exceed the best estimate of the actual costs incurred. , in order to make the actual costs of collection and recycling of WEEE more transparent. These differing costs shall not exceed the best estimate of the actual costs incurred, based on how easily products and the strategic raw materials they contain can be collected and recycled. (c) actively inform end-users of where and how they may return their very small volume WEEE. Distributors who make EEE available on the market solely by means of distance communication directly to private households or users other than private households shall only be subject to the obligations under points (a)( ii) and (iii). The collection scheme put in place by these distributors shall enable end-users to return very small volume WEEE without those users having to incur any charges, including delivery or postal charges. No later than ...*, the Commission shall adopt, by means of delegated acts in accordance with Article 20, a definition of 'very small volume WEEE', taking into account the risk of such waste not being separately collected due to its very small size. The obligations in this paragraph shall not apply to micro enterprises operating on a very small surface area. No later than ...*, the Commission shall adopt, by means of delegated acts in accordance with Article 20, a definition of 'micro enterprises operating on a very small surface area'. ______ * 12 months after the entry into force of this Directive.