WEEE Directive 2012/19 / EU Tests

If you sell products to the EU, you may need to actively participate in the reporting requirements of the 2012/19 / EU WEEE Directive.

WEEE 2012/19 / EU is not a CE marking directive, and if your product is covered, it is not subject to a CE marking directive and (eg Low Voltage Directive 2006/95 / EC). Moreover, even if it is subject to a CE marking directive that requires a declaration of conformity, compliance with the WEEE directive should not be achieved in a supplement declaration of conformity.

"WEEE" is defined in Article 1 as "waste from electrical equipment".

The purpose of the WEEE Directive 2012/1 / E is to force manufacturers and distributors of electrical products to participate in the recycling and collection of electronic equipment at the end of its life.

The responsibility for this is given to the person commissioning the equipment in the European Union. Therefore, if you use a distributor, it is the distributor's responsibility to comply with legal requirements. However, if you sell directly to your customers in the EU, it is your responsibility as a manufacturer.

The legal requirements of the 2012/19 / EU WEEE Directive are troublesome. These include communicating with individual regulatory offices within each member country where you place equipment. Some EU member states have more than one of these offices. The amount of WEEE disposal material placed in each responsibility area every month should be reported to the appropriate regulatory authorities in each region where you ship your products.

Equipment under the WEEE Directive 2012/19 / EU is set out in Annex I. Appendix I lists the devices for which compatibility requirements are required during the transition period ending on August 14, 2018.

• 1. Great home appliances.
• 2. Small home appliances.
• 3. IT and telecommunications equipment.
• 4. Consumer equipment.
• 5. Lighting equipment.
• 6. Electrical and electronic equipment.
• 7. Toys, entertainment and sports equipment.
• 8. Medical devices (except for all implanted and infected products).
• 9. Monitoring and control devices
• 10. Automatic dispensers.

More equipment is subject to the WEEE Directive 2012/19 / EU at the end of the transition period. This equipment is set out in Annex III and is subject to the WEEE Directive 15/2018 / EU as of August 2012, 19.

Appendix III hardware is listed as follows:

• 1. Temperature exchange equipment
• 2. Screens, monitors and equipment containing screens with a surface larger than 100 cm.
• 3. Lamps.
• 4. Large equipment (any outside dimension defined as greater than 50 cm).
• 5. Small equipment (defined as not more than 50 cm outside).
• 6. Small IT and telecommunications equipment (no external dimension more than 50 cm).

The WEEE Directive 2012/19 / EU is more comprehensive than RoHS. Article 2 (1) (a) defines the scope of the WEEE Directive, with respect to the exceptions specified in Article 2 (3) & (4), limited to the list in Annex I.

Excluded Article 2 (3), (4):

• 1. Military equipment.
• 2. Equipment designed to be sent to space.
• 3. Equipment designed to be installed as part of equipment not covered by the WEEE Directive. This exclusion applies only to equipment specifically designed for excluded equipment.
• 4. Large-scale stationary industrial vehicles.
• 5. Large-scale stationary installations.
• 6. Transportation vehicles for persons or goods, except electric two-wheeled vehicles, which are not type approved.
• 7. Off-road mobile machines specially prepared for non-professional use.
• 8. Active implantable medical devices.
• 9. Photovoltaic panels intended for use in a system designed, assembled and installed for continuous use by professionals in order to generate energy from sunlight for public, commercial, industrial and residential applications.
• 10. Equipment specially designed for research and development purposes only for research and development purposes only.

It is recommended that you review Annex II and Annex IV to determine whether your equipment is considered to be one of the types of equipment specified in Annex I or Annex III. Descriptive lists of sample equipment can be found in these sections.

After determining whether your equipment is covered by the WEEE Directive, you should look at how the EU defined by the Directive sees your role in this process. Article 16 states that "manufacturers", including producers selling via remote communication, will "be registered with the Member State they are selling". Manufacturers are defined in Article 2012 (19) (f) for the WEEE Directive 3/1 / EU.