This is a very important question, if you fit the description below then you have a series of obligations…

You are a producer under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive if you:

• Manufacture and sell Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) under your own brand
• Resell equipment produced by other suppliers under your own brand
• Import EEE on a professional basis into a European Union (EU) Member State

So what are your Obligations?

Producers of WEEE must join a Producer Compliance Scheme that has been approved by us and supply quarterly on EEE placed on the market by them.

The regulations apply to all producers whatever their turnover, market share or number of employees. Businesses that only place non-household EEE on the UK market must still join a Compliance Scheme.

The annual compliance period for WEEE is 1 January to 31 December each year. Producers must apply to join a compliance scheme on or before 15 October in the year previous to the next compliance period. Where a producer puts EEE on the market after this date, the Producer must join a scheme within 28 days of first intending to put EEE on the market within the UK. To register, producers need to fill out a form and pay a fee.

Since 1 April 2007, producers have had to mark EEE with a crossed out wheeled bin symbol, a producer identifier mark and a date mark.

The information in italic is taken from the Department of the Environments web site

To understand more about your obligations contact us at Secure Data Recycling.