Waste Management Licensing Exemption for WEEE Recovery Activities
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Waste Management Licensing) (England and Wales) Regulations (SI 2006, No.3315) were laid before Parliament on 15th December 2006 and came into effect on 5th January 2007.
The Regulations amend the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994. They provide for exemptions from permit requirements for treatment of waste electrical and electronic equipment (”WEEE”), together with exemptions from the permit requirements of Council Directive 2006/12/EC on waste (OJ No. L114, 27.4.2006, p.9) for the purposes of storing WEEE.
Regulation 3 and Schedule 1 amend the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994 for the purposes of providing new exemptions for the treatment and for the storage of WEEE, amending existing exemptions and making other amendments to the Regulations. Regulation 4 and Schedule 2 set out the transitional arrangements for existing licence holders and establishments and undertakings that have extant registrations.
The following exemption is inserted: “The carrying on, at any secure place in respect of WEEE of a kind described in Table 5A [of Schedule 1], of the treatment activities of repair or refurbishment or both if
(a) the activity is carried on with a view to the reuse of the WEEE for its original purpose;
(b) best available treatment, recovery and recycling techniques are used when carrying out the activity;
(c) the total quantity of any particular kind of WEEE so dealt with at that place does not exceed the treatment limit specified in relation to that kind of WEEE in Table 5A;
(d) the technical requirements specified in Annex III of the WEEE Directive are met.”
The full text of the amending Regulations can be accessed from the OPSI website at:
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2006/20063315.htm
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk (accessed 02/01/07)
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