19 Amendments of Andrés PERELLÓ RODRÍGUEZ related to 2008/0241(COD)
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – point q
Article 3 – point q
(q) “remove” means manual, or mechanical, chemical or metallurgic handling with the result that hazardous substances, preparations and components are contained as an identifiable stream or identifiable part of a stream at the end of the treatment process. A substance, preparation or component is identifiable if it can be monitored to prove environmentally safe treatment. separation of the hazardous substances, preparations and components specified in Annex II;
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2 - point a a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 - point a a (new)
(aa) distributors when offering a product in category 3, shall be responsible for ensuring that, such waste can be returned to the distributor at least free of charge as long as the equipment is of equivalent type and has fulfilled the same functions as the offered equipment, even if no new product of such type is purchased;
Amendment 124 #
Council position
Article 14 – paragraph 1
Article 14 – paragraph 1
1. Member States may require producers to show purchasersIn order to raise users’ awareness, Member States shall ensure that producers of EEE: (a) set up, in conjunction with distributors, a collection network for very- small-volume WEEE that: (i) enables end-users to discard very- small-volume WEEE at an accessible and visible collection point in the distributor’s shop; (ii) requires small shops to collect, and subsequently make available, very-small- volume WEEE without incurring any costs; (iii) does 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) are able to show, at the time of salpurchase of new products, the differentiated costs of collection, treatment and disposal in an environmentally sound way. The costs mentioned shall not exceed the best estimate of the actual costs incurred. , thus making the costs of collecting and recycling WEEE more evident; the various costs mentioned should not exceed the best estimate of the actual costs incurred, based on how easily the products and the critical raw materials they contain can be collected and recycled; (c) actively inform end-users about how and where they can discard very-small- volume WEEE correctly and safely. Distributors supplying EEE directly to private households or users other than private households solely by means of distance communication shall only be subject to the obligations under paragraph 1(a)(i) and (ii). 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 delegated acts, in accordance with Article 20, with respect to a definition of ‘very-small-volume WEEE’, taking into account the risk of such waste not being collected separately 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 delegated acts, in accordance with Article 20, with respect to a definition of ‘micro-enterprises operating on a very small surface area’. _______________ * Date 12 months after the entry into force of this Directive.
Amendment 133 #
Council position
Annex 3 – point 3 – heading
Annex 3 – point 3 – heading
3. Lamps and luminaires
Amendment 136 #
Council position
Annex 3 – point 4
Annex 3 – point 4
4. Large equipment (one length greater than 50cm) including: Householdappliances other than cooling appliances; IT and telecommunication equipment; consumer equipment; luminaires; equipment reproducing sound or images, musical equipment; electrical and electronic tool; toys, leisure and sports equipment; medical devices; monitoring and control instruments; automatic dispensers; equipmentradiators, screens and monitors and lamps and luminaires. Large appliances are all those appliances which are not in principle movable or which are intended in principle to remain in their place of use for the geneduration of electric currents. This category does not include equipment included in categories 1 to 3their service life.
Amendment 140 #
Council position
Annex 3 – point 5
Annex 3 – point 5
5. Small equipment (no length more than 50cm) including: Householdappliances other than cooling appliances; IT and telecommunication equipment; consumer equipment; luminaires; equipment reproducing sound or images, radiators, screens and monitors, lamps and luminaires, and IT and telecommusnicaltion equipment; electrical and electronic tool; toys, leisure and sports equipment; medical devices; monitoring and control instruments; automatic dispensers; equipment. Small appliances are all those appliances which are in principle movable and which are not intended in principle to remain in their place of use for the geneduration of electric currents. This category does not include equipment included in categories 1 to 3their service life.
Amendment 150 #
Council position
Annex 4 – point 3 – heading
Annex 4 – point 3 – heading
3. Lamps and luminaires
Amendment 152 #
Council position
Annex 4 – point 3 – paragraph 1
Annex 4 – point 3 – paragraph 1
Straight fluorescent lamps, Compact fluorescent lamps, Fluorescent lamps, High intensity discharge lamps - including pressure sodium lamps and metal halide lamps, Low pressure sodium lamps, LED lamps, luminaires and other devices that emit or control light.
Amendment 156 #
Council position
Annex 4 – point 4
Annex 4 – point 4
4. Large equipment Wappliances – Large appliances used for cooking and other processing of foods (e.g. electric hot plates, electric ovens, electric stoves, microwaves, fixed coffee machines) – Extractor hoods – Large machines for cleaning (e.g. washing machines, Cclothes dryers, Ddish washing machines, Cookers) – Large heating appliances (e.g. large heat blowers, Eelectric stoves, Electric hot plates, Luminaires,systems for heating marble and natural stone and other large appliances for heating rooms, beds and seating furniture); – Large body-care appliances (e.g. solariums, saunas, massage chairs) – Large IT and telecommunications appliances (e.g. large computer mainframes, servers, fixed network installations and appliances, large printing machines, copying equipment, coin- operated telephones) – Large sports and leisure appliances (e.g. sports equipment with electrical or electronic components, large slot machines) – Equipment reproducing sound or images, – Musical equipment (excluding pipe organs installed in churches), Appliances for knitting and weaving, Large computer- mainframes, Large printing machines, Copying equipment, Large coin slot machines, – Large electrical and electronic industrial tools and machinery except large-scale stationary industrial tools and non-road mobile machinery and appliances intended exclusively for professional users (e.g. appliances for knitting and weaving) – Large appliances for generating or transferring current (e.g. generators, transformers, uninterruptable power supplies (UPS), inverters) – Large medical devices, – Large monitoring and control instruments, – Large measuring instruments and installations (e.g. scales, fixed machines) – Large appliances whichfor automatically deliver products and money,ed product sales or dispensing and for the automated provision of simple services (e.g. product dispensers, cash machines, machines for the return of empties, photo machines) – Photovoltaic panels.
Amendment 161 #
Council position
Annex 4 – point 5
Annex 4 – point 5
5. Small equipment Vacuum cleaners, Carpet sweepers, Appliances for sewing, Luminairappliances – Small appliances used for cooking and other processing of foods (e.g. toasters, electric hotplates, electric knives, electric kettles, immersion coils, chopping machines, Mmicrowaves, Ventilation equipment) – Small cleaning appliances (e.g. vacuum cleaners, carpet sweepers, Iirons, Toasters, Electric knives, Electric kettles, Clocks, Electric shavers, Scales, Appliances for hair andetc.) – Fans, air fresheners, ventilation equipment – Small heating appliances (e.g. electric blankets) – Clocks, watches, alarm clocks and other time-measuring instruments – Small body -care, Personal computers, Printers, Calculators, Telephones, Mobile phones, Radio sets, Vide appliances (e.g. electric shavers, toothbrushes, hairdryers, massage machines) – Cameras (e.g. video cameras) – Consumer electronics appliances (e.g. radios, audio cameras, Vplifiers, car radios, DVD players, video recorders, Hhi-fi equipment,) – Musical instruments, Equipment reproducing sound or images, Electrical and electronic toys, S and sound equipment (e.g. amplifiers, mixing desks, headphones and speakers, microphones) – Toys (e.g. model railways, model aircraft, etc.) – Small items of sports equipment, C (e.g. computers for biking, diving, running, rowing, etc., Smoke detector, Heating regulators, Thermostats,) – Small leisure appliances (e.g. video games, fishing and golf equipment, etc.) – Small Eelectrical and electronic tools, Small medical devices, including gardening equipment (e.g. drills, saws, pumps, lawn-mowers) – Sewing machines – Small appliances for generating or transferring current (e.g. generators, battery chargers, uninterruptable power supplies (UPS), converters) – Small medical devices including veterinary devices – Small Mmonitoring and control instruments, Small Appliances which automatically deliver products, (e.g. smoke detectors, heating regulators, thermostats, movement detectors, monitoring appliances and products, remote handling and control devices) – Small measuring appliances (e.g. scales, display devices, telemeters, thermometers) – Small appliances for automated product sales or dispensing – Small equipment with integrated photovoltaic panels.
Amendment 206 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 2 - subparagraphs 2 a - 2 c (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 2 - subparagraphs 2 a - 2 c (new)
Fulfilment of the obligation by producers participating in a collective scheme shall be executed upon payment into the scheme on a yearly basis, from the moment products are placed on the market, of a sum in proportion to the producers’ respective annual market share of the costs incurred by that scheme in respect of the type of equipment defined in Annex 1B. Upon the aforementioned payment by the producers into a collective scheme, their obligation for financing the operations referred to in paragraph 1 is transferred to the collective scheme. Fulfilment of the obligation by producers participating in an accredited individual scheme shall be executed by financing and organising the operations referred to in paragraph 1 in respect of only their individual products labelled in accordance with Article 15. Producers that fulfil their obligation through the establishment of such an individual scheme shall, at the moment of placing a product on the market and in addition to the financing and organisation of the operations referred to in paragraph 1 in the current year, provide for sufficient financial coverage in a blocked bank account to guarantee the future operations referred to in paragraph 1 in respect of all products placed on the market by the producer which have not been collected. The blocked bank account shall have one third-party beneficiary, being an accredited collective scheme, which will be obliged to ensure the operations referred to in paragraph 1 in the event that the aforesaid producer is declared insolvent, bankrupt or alike, or in the case of withdrawal from the market.
Amendment 225 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Member States shall ensure collective schemes provide evidence that the fulfilment of the obligation in a collective scheme is executed upon payment into the scheme on a yearly basis, from the moment products are placed on the market, of a sum in proportion to the producers’ respective annual market share of the costs incurred by that scheme in respect of the type of equipment defined in Annex 1B.
Amendment 226 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 2 b (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Member States shall ensure, and provide information to confirm, that, upon the aforementioned payment into a collective scheme, the producer’s obligation for financing the operations referred to in Article 12(1), relating to the waste from his own products, is transferred to the collective scheme.
Amendment 227 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 2 c (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Member states shall provide evidence that fulfilment of the obligation by producers participating in an accredited individual scheme is executed by financing and organising the operations referred to in Article 12(1) in respect only of their individual products labelled in accordance with Article 15.
Amendment 228 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 2 d (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. The producer that fulfils its obligation through the establishment of such an individual scheme shall provide sufficient evidence that, at the moment of placing its product on the market, besides the financing and organisation of the operations referred to in Article 12(1) in the current year, it has provided for sufficient financial coverage in a blocked bank account to guarantee the future operations referred to in Article 12(1) in respect of all products placed on the market by the producer which have not been collected. Furthermore, the information shall provide evidence of the identification of the third-party beneficiary referred to in Article 12.
Amendment 233 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 a (new)
Article 16 a (new)
Amendment 241 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 1 - subparagraph 2
Article 20 – paragraph 1 - subparagraph 2
Those inspections shall at least cover (a) exports of WEEE outside the Community in accordance with the Waste Shipment Regulation and the operations at treatment facilities in accordance with Directive 2008/xx/EC on waste and Annex II of this Directive. (b) compliance by producers with their financing obligations in accordance with Article 12 and 13 of this Directive. (c) compliance by individual and collective schemes with their obligations in accordance with Articles 12 and 16 (new article) of this Directive.
Amendment 265 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I A (new)
Annex I A (new)
ANNEX IA Categories of equipment in accordance with Article 11 1. Cooling appliances and radiators; 2. Screens and monitors; 3. Lamps and luminaires; 4. Large appliances other than cooling appliances, radiators, screens, monitors, and lamps; ‘Large appliances’ means those which in principle are not movable or which, in principle, are intended to remain in the place where they were installed throughout their useful life; 5. Small appliances other than cooling appliances, radiators, screens, monitors, and lamps; ‘Small appliances’ means all those appliances which in principle are movable and which, in principle, are not intended to remain in their place of use throughout their useful life.
Amendment 269 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I B (new)
Annex I B (new)