{ "$schema": "https://www.conphora.com/schemas/regulation-page.json", "code": "WEEE", "locale": "en", "url": "https://www.conphora.com/regulations/weee/", "json": "https://www.conphora.com/regulations/weee.json", "summaryPdf": "https://www.conphora.com/regulations/weee/summary.pdf", "dateModified": "2026-09-11", "regulation": { "code": "WEEE", "name": "Directive 2012/19/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) (recast)", "shortName": "WEEE Directive", "reference": "Directive 2012/19/EU", "celex": "32012L0019", "eurlex": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32012L0019", "actType": "Directive", "category": "Environment & Waste", "inForce": "2012-08-13", "appliesFrom": "2014-02-14", "changing": true, "video": "regulation-weee" }, "answer": "The WEEE Directive makes every producer of electrical and electronic equipment, importers and distance sellers included, finance the collection and treatment of waste from its products and mark them with the crossed-out wheeled bin, with free take-back by distributors. It has applied since 14 February 2014 and was last amended by Directive (EU) 2024/884, transposed by 9 October 2025.", "description": "WEEE guide: the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive, who counts as a producer, the six equipment categories, registration, financing, the crossed-out bin mark, take-back, key dates and how to comply in Denmark.", "enforcedBy": "Member States inspect and monitor the register data, shipments and treatment facilities and lay down effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties in their transposing laws; the directive is listed in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 on market surveillance for its product requirements. In Denmark the directive is implemented by the elektronikaffaldsbekendtgørelsen, executive order nr. 942 of 20 June 2025 issued under lov om miljøbeskyttelse: Miljøstyrelsen (the Danish Environmental Protection Agency) supervises the producer duties on registration, reporting, financing, take-back, treatment, information and marking, the municipal councils supervise the remaining rules, and Dansk Producentansvar (DPA) keeps the producer register and decides whether a company or product is covered. The toolkit is orders to produce documents, data and supply-chain information, test purchases including under a hidden identity, orders to change or remove content on an online interface, fines for placing equipment on the market without registration, guarantee or marking or without reporting, and imprisonment of up to 2 years where an intentional or grossly negligent infringement damages the environment or yields a financial gain.", "keyDates": [ { "date": "2012-07-04", "label": "Directive 2012/19/EU adopted by the European Parliament and the Council in Strasbourg, recasting Directive 2002/96/EC", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32012L0019 · title and signature block after Art. 27" }, { "date": "2012-08-13", "label": "Entry into force, the twentieth day after publication in OJ L 197 of 24 July 2012; the directive applies to the ten Annex I categories, including photovoltaic panels, during the transitional period", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 2(1)(a), Art. 20(2) and Art. 26" }, { "date": "2014-02-14", "label": "Deadline for Member States to bring their transposing laws into force and to notify their penalty rules to the Commission", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 22 and Art. 24(1)" }, { "date": "2014-02-15", "label": "Directive 2002/96/EC, as amended by Directives 2003/108/EC and 2008/34/EC, repealed; references to it are read as references to Directive 2012/19/EU per the Annex XII correlation table", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 25, Annex XI, Part A, and Annex XII" }, { "date": "2015-08-15", "label": "Annex V, Part 2 recovery targets apply by Annex I category until 14 August 2018, for example 85 % recovery and 80 % preparing for re-use and recycling for large household appliances and automatic dispensers", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 11(1) and Annex V, Part 2" }, { "date": "2016-01-01", "label": "Minimum collection rate of 45 % of the average weight of EEE placed on the market in the three preceding years; the 4 kg per inhabitant rate applied until 31 December 2015", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 7(1)" }, { "date": "2018-07-04", "label": "Directive (EU) 2018/849 in force: Member State data reporting rewritten in Article 16(6) to (9), Article 16a on incentives for the waste hierarchy inserted and the delegated-act power in Article 19 narrowed to Annexes IV, VII, VIII and IX", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32018L0849 · Art. 3 and Art. 5" }, { "date": "2018-08-15", "label": "Open scope: the directive applies to all EEE classified in the six Annex III categories, subject to the Article 2(3) and 2(4) exclusions; Annex V, Part 3 recovery targets apply; producer financing and the date mark for open-scope EEE start from this date", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 2(1)(b), Art. 2(4), Art. 12(1)(c), Art. 13(1)(c), Art. 15(2) and Annex V, Part 3" }, { "date": "2019-01-01", "label": "Minimum annual collection rate of 65 % of the average weight of EEE placed on the market in the three preceding years, or 85 % of WEEE generated; ten listed Member States could postpone it until 14 August 2021 at the latest", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 7(1) and Art. 7(3)" }, { "date": "2020-07-05", "label": "Deadline for Member States to transpose Directive (EU) 2018/849", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32018L0849 · Art. 4(1)" }, { "date": "2022-01-25", "label": "Court of Justice judgment in Case C-181/20 (Vysočina Wind) declares Article 13(1) invalid in so far as it made producers finance waste from photovoltaic panels placed on the market between 13 August 2005 and 13 August 2012", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024L0884 · recitals 4 to 6" }, { "date": "2024-04-08", "label": "Directive (EU) 2024/884 in force: producer financing limited to photovoltaic panels placed on the market from 13 August 2012 and open-scope EEE from 15 August 2018, EN 50419:2022 referenced for marking, and the Article 24a review inserted", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024L0884 · Art. 1 and Art. 3" }, { "date": "2025-07-01", "label": "Denmark: elektronikaffaldsbekendtgørelsen, executive order nr. 942 of 20 June 2025, in force, replacing executive order nr. 1566 of 19 December 2022 and implementing Directive (EU) 2024/884", "source": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 71 and note 1" }, { "date": "2025-07-02", "label": "Commission publishes its evaluation of the directive (SWD(2025) 184 and 185): relevant, coherent and proportionate, but nearly half of the WEEE generated is not collected and enforcement gaps remain, particularly for online sellers; findings feed the revision under the Circular Economy Act", "source": "https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-evaluation-looks-how-improve-weee-directive-2025-07-02_en" }, { "date": "2025-10-09", "label": "Deadline for Member States to transpose Directive (EU) 2024/884", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024L0884 · Art. 2(1)" }, { "date": "2026-12-31", "label": "Deadline for the Commission to assess the need for a revision of the directive, including a separate photovoltaic-panel category and a mechanism covering panel waste costs if a producer fails, with a legislative proposal where appropriate", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 24a" } ], "amendedBy": [ { "reference": "Directive (EU) 2018/849", "celex": "32018L0849", "date": "2018-07-04", "summary": "The circular-economy package directive of 30 May 2018, published in OJ L 150 on 14 June 2018, deleted Article 16(5), added Article 16(6) to (9) so that Member States report the Article 16(4) data to the Commission electronically within 18 months of the end of each reporting year with a quality check report, inserted Article 16a allowing economic instruments that promote the waste hierarchy, and replaced the first paragraph of Article 19 so that delegated acts may adapt Annexes IV, VII, VIII and IX to scientific and technical progress, one act per annex; Member States had to transpose it by 5 July 2020.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32018L0849 · Art. 3, Art. 4(1) and Art. 5" }, { "reference": "Directive (EU) 2024/884", "celex": "32024L0884", "date": "2024-04-08", "summary": "The amending directive of 13 March 2024, published in OJ L 2024/884 on 19 March 2024, follows the Court's judgment in Case C-181/20: it replaced Article 12(1), 12(3) first subparagraph and 12(4) and Article 13(1) so that producers finance WEEE from photovoltaic panels only where the panels were placed on the market from 13 August 2012 and from open-scope EEE only where it was placed on the market from 15 August 2018, kept the 13 August 2005 line for other Annex I equipment, updated Article 14(4) and 15(2) to EN 50419:2022 and limited the date mark for photovoltaic panels and open-scope EEE accordingly, and inserted Article 24a requiring the Commission to assess a revision by 31 December 2026; Member States had to transpose it by 9 October 2025.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024L0884 · Art. 1, Art. 2(1) and Art. 3" } ], "scope": { "appliesTo": [ "Electrical and electronic equipment (EEE): equipment that depends on electric currents or electromagnetic fields to work properly, or that generates, transfers or measures such currents and fields, rated for use at not more than 1 000 V AC or 1 500 V DC", "Since 15 August 2018 all EEE, classified in the six Annex III categories: temperature exchange equipment, screens and monitors over 100 cm², lamps, large equipment over 50 cm, small equipment up to 50 cm and small IT and telecommunication equipment up to 50 cm; photovoltaic panels have been in scope since 13 August 2012, during the transitional period in Annex I, category 4 (consumer equipment and photovoltaic panels), and since 15 August 2018 in Annex III, category 4, large equipment", "The waste from that equipment (WEEE), including all components, sub-assemblies and consumables that are part of the product when it is discarded, from private households and from other users", "Producers in the directive's wide sense: manufacturers and brand owners, own-brand resellers, professional importers from another Member State or a third country, and distance sellers established elsewhere who sell directly to users in a Member State", "Distributors that make EEE available on the market, and the authorised representatives that producers established in another Member State appoint or must appoint" ], "derived": [ "The directive applies without prejudice to Union law on safety and health, on chemicals (REACH) and to specific waste-management or product-design legislation, so the RoHS Directive, the Batteries Regulation and the Ecodesign rules apply alongside it (Art. 2(2))", "Producer status is assessed per Member State: an operator is a producer where it is established and manufactures, rebrands or imports, and a distance seller is a producer in each Member State it sells into, where it must be registered through an authorised representative (Art. 3(1)(f) and Art. 16(1))", "A distributor that resells under its own brand, or places EEE from another country on the market on a professional basis, is at the same time a producer (Art. 3(1)(f)(ii) and (iii) and Art. 3(1)(g))", "Whoever exclusively provides financing under a finance agreement such as a lease or deferred sale is not a producer unless it also acts as one (Art. 3(1)(f), last sentence, and Art. 3(1)(i))", "Used EEE shipped across borders is presumed to be WEEE, and an illegal shipment, unless the holder documents functionality testing, the sales contract and protection during transport as required by Annex VI (Art. 23(2) and Annex VI)" ], "categories": [ { "id": "temperature-exchange-equipment", "label": "Temperature exchange equipment (refrigerators, freezers, air conditioning, dehumidifiers, heat pumps, oil-filled radiators)" }, { "id": "screens-and-monitors", "label": "Screens, monitors and equipment with a screen larger than 100 cm² (televisions, monitors, laptops, notebooks, LCD photo frames)" }, { "id": "lamps", "label": "Lamps (fluorescent, compact fluorescent, high-intensity discharge, sodium and LED lamps)" }, { "id": "large-equipment", "label": "Large equipment with any external dimension over 50 cm (washing machines, cookers, luminaires, large printers, large tools, large medical devices, vending machines)" }, { "id": "photovoltaic-panels", "label": "Photovoltaic panels" }, { "id": "small-equipment", "label": "Small equipment with no external dimension over 50 cm (vacuum cleaners, kettles, irons, shavers, cameras, toys, small tools, smoke detectors, thermostats)" }, { "id": "small-it-telecom", "label": "Small IT and telecommunication equipment with no external dimension over 50 cm (mobile phones, routers, GPS devices, calculators, personal computers, printers, telephones)" }, { "id": "electric-two-wheeler-not-type-approved", "label": "Electric two-wheel vehicle that is not type-approved (e-scooter or e-bike outside vehicle type approval)" }, { "id": "filament-bulbs", "label": "Filament bulbs" }, { "id": "military-security-equipment", "label": "Equipment necessary for the essential security interests of a Member State, including arms, munitions and war material for specifically military purposes" }, { "id": "part-of-excluded-equipment", "label": "Equipment specifically designed and installed as part of excluded or out-of-scope equipment and only able to function as part of it" }, { "id": "space-equipment", "label": "Equipment designed to be sent into space" }, { "id": "large-scale-stationary-industrial-tools", "label": "Large-scale stationary industrial tools, permanently installed and maintained by professionals in an industrial or research facility" }, { "id": "large-scale-fixed-installations", "label": "Large-scale fixed installation assembled by professionals as a permanent part of a building or structure" }, { "id": "means-of-transport", "label": "Means of transport for persons or goods (cars, trucks, type-approved vehicles)" }, { "id": "non-road-mobile-machinery-professional", "label": "Non-road mobile machinery made available exclusively for professional use" }, { "id": "rd-equipment-b2b", "label": "Equipment designed solely for research and development and made available only business-to-business" }, { "id": "infective-or-implantable-medical-devices", "label": "Medical or in vitro diagnostic device expected to be infective before end of life, or an active implantable medical device" }, { "id": "non-eee", "label": "Product that does not depend on electric currents or electromagnetic fields to work, or is rated above 1 000 V AC or 1 500 V DC" } ], "roles": [ { "id": "producer", "label": "Producer (manufacturer, brand owner, own-brand reseller, importer or distance seller)", "definition": "Any natural or legal person who, irrespective of the selling technique used, including distance communication, is established in a Member State and manufactures EEE under his own name or trademark or has it designed or manufactured and markets it under his name or trademark there; is established in a Member State and resells there under his own name or trademark equipment produced by other suppliers, unless the producer's brand appears on it; is established in a Member State and places EEE from a third country or another Member State on its market on a professional basis; or sells EEE by distance communication directly to private households or other users in a Member State while established in another Member State or a third country. A pure financier under a finance agreement is not a producer.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 3(1)(f)" }, { "id": "distributor", "label": "Distributor (wholesaler or retailer, in store or online)", "definition": "Any natural or legal person in the supply chain who makes EEE available on the market; a distributor may at the same time be a producer, for example when it resells under its own brand or imports on a professional basis.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 3(1)(g) and Art. 3(1)(f)(ii) and (iii)" }, { "id": "other", "label": "Authorised representative", "definition": "A legal or natural person established in a Member State that a producer established in another Member State appoints by written mandate to fulfil the producer's obligations under the directive on that territory; a distance seller established in one Member State that sells EEE to another Member State in which it is not established must appoint one there.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 17(1) to (3)" } ], "rules": [ { "categories": [ "non-eee" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "out-of-scope", "note": "Only equipment that depends on electric currents or electromagnetic fields to work properly, or that generates, transfers or measures them, and is rated for not more than 1 000 V AC or 1 500 V DC, is EEE; anything else is outside the directive.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 2(1) and Art. 3(1)(a)" }, { "categories": [ "filament-bulbs", "military-security-equipment", "part-of-excluded-equipment" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "out-of-scope", "note": "Article 2(3) has excluded these three groups since 13 August 2012: equipment necessary for the essential security interests of Member States including arms, munitions and war material for specifically military purposes, equipment specifically designed and installed as part of excluded or out-of-scope equipment that can only function as part of it, and filament bulbs.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 2(3)" }, { "categories": [ "space-equipment", "large-scale-stationary-industrial-tools", "large-scale-fixed-installations", "means-of-transport", "non-road-mobile-machinery-professional", "rd-equipment-b2b", "infective-or-implantable-medical-devices" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "out-of-scope", "note": "Since 15 August 2018 Article 2(4) also excludes these seven groups. Two limits matter: equipment that is not specifically designed and installed as part of a large-scale fixed installation stays in scope, and electric two-wheel vehicles that are not type-approved are not treated as means of transport.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 2(4) and Art. 3(1)(b) to (d)" }, { "categories": [ "photovoltaic-panels" ], "roles": [ "producer" ], "size": "any", "result": "in-scope", "note": "Photovoltaic panels have been in scope since 13 August 2012: during the transitional period in Annex I, category 4 (consumer equipment and photovoltaic panels), and since 15 August 2018 in Annex III, category 4, large equipment. Producers register, mark and report them like other EEE, but only finance the waste from panels placed on the market from 13 August 2012, and the date mark is required only for those panels.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 2(1), Art. 12(1)(b), Art. 13(1)(b), Art. 15(2), Annex I, point 4, Annex III, point 4 and Annex IV, point 4" }, { "categories": [ "temperature-exchange-equipment", "screens-and-monitors", "lamps", "large-equipment", "small-equipment", "small-it-telecom", "electric-two-wheeler-not-type-approved" ], "roles": [ "producer" ], "size": "any", "result": "in-scope", "note": "A producer of EEE in any Annex III category must be registered in the national register before placing it on the market, finance the collection, treatment, recovery and disposal of the waste from its products, mark the equipment with the crossed-out wheeled bin and the date mark, inform treatment facilities and report the quantities placed on the market; there is no company-size threshold.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 3(1)(f), Art. 12, Art. 13, Art. 14(4), Art. 15 and Art. 16" }, { "categories": [ "temperature-exchange-equipment", "screens-and-monitors", "lamps", "large-equipment", "photovoltaic-panels", "small-equipment", "small-it-telecom", "electric-two-wheeler-not-type-approved" ], "roles": [ "distributor" ], "size": "any", "result": "in-scope", "note": "A distributor supplying a new product to a private household must take back equivalent WEEE free of charge on a one-to-one basis, and a retail shop with an EEE sales area of at least 400 m² must accept very small WEEE with no external dimension over 25 cm free of charge without any purchase; a distributor that resells under its own brand or imports on a professional basis is also a producer.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 5(2)(b) and (c), Art. 3(1)(f) and Art. 3(1)(g)" }, { "categories": [ "temperature-exchange-equipment", "screens-and-monitors", "lamps", "large-equipment", "photovoltaic-panels", "small-equipment", "small-it-telecom", "electric-two-wheeler-not-type-approved" ], "roles": [ "other" ], "size": "any", "result": "in-scope", "note": "An authorised representative appointed by written mandate is responsible for fulfilling the represented producer's obligations on the territory of the Member State where it is established, including registration with the producer's details, reporting and financing; for distance sellers the appointment is mandatory.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 16(1) and (2), Art. 17 and Annex X, Part A, point 1" }, { "categories": [ "*" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "depends", "note": "Whether the directive applies turns on whether the product is EEE within the voltage limits, whether an Article 2(3) or 2(4) exclusion applies, and in which Member State the operator manufactures, rebrands, imports or sells by distance communication.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 2 and Art. 3(1)" } ] }, "obligations": { "producer": [ { "text": "Register in the producer register of every Member State where you are a producer before placing EEE on its market, providing the Annex X, Part A information: name, address and contact person, national identification and tax number, the Annex III category and type of equipment, brand name, how you meet your responsibilities individually or through a collective scheme including the financial guarantee, the selling technique and a declaration that the information is true. In Denmark the registration with Dansk Producentansvar must be made at least 14 days before you first place equipment on the market, and changes must be registered within one month.", "id": "weee-prod-register-producer-register", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 16(1) and (2) and Annex X, Part A; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 6 and § 8" }, { "text": "Register in the producer register of every Member State where you are a producer before placing EEE on its market, with the Annex X, Part A information; in Denmark with Dansk Producentansvar at least 14 days before you first place equipment on the market.", "id": "weee-prod-register-before-placing", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 16(1) and (2) and Annex X, Part A; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 6" }, { "text": "Register changes to your registered producer information; in Denmark within one month of the change.", "id": "weee-prod-register-changes", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 16(2); https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 8" }, { "text": "Finance at least the collection from collection facilities, treatment, recovery and environmentally sound disposal of WEEE from private households arising from your own products, individually or by joining a collective scheme, and provide a guarantee when placing each product on the market, in the form of participation in a financing scheme, a recycling insurance or a blocked bank account. This applies to Annex I equipment placed on the market after 13 August 2005, to photovoltaic panels placed on the market from 13 August 2012 and to open-scope EEE placed on the market from 15 August 2018; historical waste from other Annex I equipment is financed collectively by all producers on the market in proportion to their market share.", "id": "weee-prod-finance-least-collection", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 12(1), (3) and (4)" }, { "text": "Finance at least the collection from collection facilities, treatment, recovery and environmentally sound disposal of household WEEE from your own products, individually or through a collective scheme, and your market share of historical household WEEE.", "id": "weee-prod-finance-household-weee", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 12(1) and (4)" }, { "text": "When placing each product on the market, provide a guarantee that the management of its WEEE will be financed: participation in a financing scheme, a recycling insurance or a blocked bank account.", "id": "weee-prod-provide-financial-guarantee", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 12(3)" }, { "text": "Finance the collection, treatment, recovery and disposal of WEEE from users other than private households for the same product groups and dates; for historical Annex I waste replaced by new equivalent products you finance the costs when supplying the new products, unless the Member State makes the business user responsible, and you may agree other financing methods with business customers by contract. Producers or third parties acting on their behalf must also provide for the collection of such non-household WEEE.", "id": "weee-prod-finance-collection-treatment", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 5(5) and Art. 13" }, { "text": "Mark every item of EEE placed on the market with the crossed-out wheeled bin of Annex IX, visibly, legibly and indelibly and preferably in accordance with EN 50419:2022; only where the size or function of the product makes this necessary may the symbol go on the packaging, the instructions and the warranty instead. Add the Article 15(2) mark showing that the equipment was placed on the market after 13 August 2005, for photovoltaic panels from 13 August 2012 and for open-scope EEE from 15 August 2018; EN 50419:2022, which the directive recommends, also identifies the producer and the date.", "id": "weee-prod-mark-item-eee", "kind": "mark", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 12(3), Art. 14(4), Art. 15(2) and Annex IX" }, { "text": "Within one year after placing a new type of EEE on the Union market for the first time, provide re-use centres and treatment and recycling facilities, free of charge and in manuals or electronic form, with the information they need on preparation for re-use and treatment, identifying components and materials and the location of dangerous substances and mixtures.", "id": "weee-prod-year-placing-new", "kind": "data", "level": "product", "timing": "after-placing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 15(1)" }, { "text": "Report to the register the Annex X, Part B data per category: the quantity of EEE placed on the national market by weight and the quantity of WEEE separately collected, recycled including prepared for re-use, recovered and disposed of or shipped within or outside the Union, and keep records of the weight of WEEE leaving collection facilities and entering and leaving treatment and recovery facilities. In Denmark the annual report to Dansk Producentansvar is due by 31 March for the preceding calendar year, with an auditor's attestation by 31 May unless a size exemption applies.", "id": "weee-prod-report-register-annex", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "periodic", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 11(4), Art. 16(2)(c) and Annex X, Part B; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 13 and § 14" }, { "text": "Report to the register the Annex X, Part B data per category: EEE placed on the national market by weight and WEEE separately collected, recycled, recovered, disposed of or shipped; in Denmark to Dansk Producentansvar by 31 March for the preceding calendar year.", "id": "weee-prod-report-annex-x-data", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "periodic", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 16(2)(c) and Annex X, Part B; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 13" }, { "text": "Keep records of the weight of WEEE leaving collection facilities and entering and leaving treatment and recovery facilities.", "id": "weee-prod-keep-weee-weight-records", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 11(4)" }, { "text": "In Denmark, submit an auditor's attestation of the annual report by 31 May unless a size exemption applies.", "id": "weee-prod-submit-auditor-attestation", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "periodic", "source": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 14" }, { "text": "Set up, individually or collectively, systems for the recovery of WEEE using best available techniques and meet the Annex V, Part 3 minimum targets for all separately collected WEEE: 85 % recovery and 80 % preparing for re-use and recycling for temperature exchange and large equipment, 80 % and 70 % for screens, 75 % and 55 % for small equipment and small IT equipment, and 80 % recycling for lamps; treatment must at least remove all fluids and the Annex VII substances and components, and WEEE exported outside the Union counts only where equivalent treatment conditions are proven.", "id": "weee-prod-set-individually-collectively", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 8(2) and (3), Art. 10(2), Art. 11(1) and Annex V, Part 3" }, { "text": "Do not prevent WEEE from being re-used through specific design features or manufacturing processes unless they bring overriding advantages for the environment or safety, and where you are established in another Member State appoint an authorised representative by written mandate; a distance seller selling into a Member State where it is not established must do so.", "id": "weee-prod-prevent-weee-being", "kind": "decision", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 4 and Art. 17" }, { "text": "Do not prevent WEEE from being re-used through specific design features or manufacturing processes unless they bring overriding advantages for the environment or safety.", "id": "weee-prod-design-for-re-use", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 4" }, { "text": "Where you sell EEE by distance contract into a Member State where you are not established, appoint an authorised representative there by written mandate; a producer established in another Member State may do so.", "id": "weee-prod-appoint-authorised-representative", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 17" } ], "distributor": [ { "text": "When supplying a new product to a private household, take back the old equipment of equivalent type that fulfilled the same functions, at least free of charge and on a one-to-one basis, unless the Member State has arranged an equally easy and free alternative for the final holder.", "id": "weee-dist-take-back-old", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 5(2)(b)" }, { "text": "In retail shops with sales areas relating to EEE of at least 400 m², or in their immediate proximity, collect very small WEEE with no external dimension over 25 cm free of charge for end-users and without any obligation to buy, unless an assessment made public shows that existing collection schemes are at least as effective.", "id": "weee-dist-immediate-proximity-collect", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 5(2)(c)" }, { "text": "Ensure that WEEE you receive is passed on for proper treatment under Article 8, and transmit the information on the WEEE received by you that the Member State needs to establish its collection rate, free of charge; WEEE that presents a health and safety risk because of contamination may be refused.", "id": "weee-dist-ensure-weee-receive", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 5(2)(c) and (e) and Art. 7(2)(b)" }, { "text": "Ensure that WEEE you receive is passed on for proper treatment under Article 8; WEEE that presents a health and safety risk because of contamination may be refused.", "id": "weee-dist-pass-weee-for-treatment", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 5(2)(c) and (e)" }, { "text": "Transmit free of charge the information on the WEEE you received that the Member State needs to establish its collection rate.", "id": "weee-dist-transmit-collection-information", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "periodic", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 7(2)(b)" }, { "text": "Provide users with the information the Member State requires, for example in the instructions for use or at the point of sale: that WEEE must not be disposed of as unsorted municipal waste, which return and collection systems exist, the user's role in re-use and recycling, the effects of hazardous substances and the meaning of the crossed-out wheeled bin.", "id": "weee-dist-provide-users-information", "kind": "data", "level": "product-market", "timing": "at-listing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 14(2) and (5)" }, { "text": "Check who the producer is: if you resell under your own name or trademark, or place EEE from another country on the market on a professional basis, you are yourself a producer with the full registration, financing, marking and reporting duties. In Denmark a distributor may not acquire and sell EEE from producers that are not registered in the producer register.", "id": "weee-dist-check-producer-resell", "kind": "status", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 3(1)(f)(ii) and (iii) and Art. 3(1)(g); https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 12 and § 70, nr. 4" }, { "text": "If you resell EEE under your own name or trademark, or place EEE from another country on the market on a professional basis, you are yourself a producer with the full registration, financing, marking and reporting duties.", "id": "weee-dist-producer-when-reselling", "kind": "status", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 3(1)(f)(ii) and (iii) and Art. 3(1)(g)" }, { "text": "In Denmark, do not acquire and sell EEE from producers that are not registered in the producer register.", "id": "weee-dist-buy-registered-producers-only", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 12 and § 70, nr. 4" } ], "other": [ { "text": "Act under a written mandate from the producer and take responsibility for fulfilling that producer's obligations under the directive on the territory of the Member State where you are established; a producer established in another Member State may appoint you, and a distance seller selling into your Member State must.", "id": "weee-oth-act-written-mandate", "kind": "status", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 17(1) to (3)" }, { "text": "Register in the national producer register with the Annex X, Part A information, including your own name, address and contact person and the contact details of the producer you represent, and undertake to keep it up to date. In Denmark the producer registers its representative with Dansk Producentansvar, which asks the representative to confirm the registration digitally within 7 days; each producer may register only one representative.", "id": "weee-oth-register-national-producer", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 16(1) and (2)(a) and (b) and Annex X, Part A, point 1; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 7, stk. 4 and 5" }, { "text": "Report the Annex X, Part B data for the represented producer: reporting period, category, quantity of EEE placed on the national market by weight and quantities of WEEE separately collected, recycled, recovered, disposed of and shipped.", "id": "weee-oth-report-annex-part", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "periodic", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 16(2)(c) and Annex X, Part B" }, { "text": "Ensure the financing, guarantee, marking and information duties of Articles 12 to 15 are met for the represented producer's equipment on your territory, since the mandate makes you the person responsible for the producer's obligations there.", "id": "weee-oth-ensure-financing-guarantee", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 12 to Art. 15 and Art. 17(1) and (2)" } ] }, "requirements": [ { "id": "weee-prod-register-producer-register", "role": "producer", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Register in the producer register of every Member State where you are a producer before placing EEE on its market, providing the Annex X, Part A information: name, address and contact person, national identification and tax number, the Annex III category and type of equipment, brand name, how you meet your responsibilities individually or through a collective scheme including the financial guarantee, the selling technique and a declaration that the information is true. In Denmark the registration with Dansk Producentansvar must be made at least 14 days before you first place equipment on the market, and changes must be registered within one month.", "article": "Art. 16(1) and (2) and Annex X, Part A; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 6 and § 8", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-prod-register-before-placing", "role": "producer", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Register in the producer register of every Member State where you are a producer before placing EEE on its market, with the Annex X, Part A information; in Denmark with Dansk Producentansvar at least 14 days before you first place equipment on the market.", "article": "Art. 16(1) and (2) and Annex X, Part A; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 6", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-prod-register-changes", "role": "producer", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "on-event", "text": "Register changes to your registered producer information; in Denmark within one month of the change.", "article": "Art. 16(2); https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 8", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-prod-finance-least-collection", "role": "producer", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Finance at least the collection from collection facilities, treatment, recovery and environmentally sound disposal of WEEE from private households arising from your own products, individually or by joining a collective scheme, and provide a guarantee when placing each product on the market, in the form of participation in a financing scheme, a recycling insurance or a blocked bank account. This applies to Annex I equipment placed on the market after 13 August 2005, to photovoltaic panels placed on the market from 13 August 2012 and to open-scope EEE placed on the market from 15 August 2018; historical waste from other Annex I equipment is financed collectively by all producers on the market in proportion to their market share.", "article": "Art. 12(1), (3) and (4)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-prod-finance-household-weee", "role": "producer", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "Finance at least the collection from collection facilities, treatment, recovery and environmentally sound disposal of household WEEE from your own products, individually or through a collective scheme, and your market share of historical household WEEE.", "article": "Art. 12(1) and (4)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-prod-provide-financial-guarantee", "role": "producer", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "When placing each product on the market, provide a guarantee that the management of its WEEE will be financed: participation in a financing scheme, a recycling insurance or a blocked bank account.", "article": "Art. 12(3)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-prod-finance-collection-treatment", "role": "producer", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "Finance the collection, treatment, recovery and disposal of WEEE from users other than private households for the same product groups and dates; for historical Annex I waste replaced by new equivalent products you finance the costs when supplying the new products, unless the Member State makes the business user responsible, and you may agree other financing methods with business customers by contract. Producers or third parties acting on their behalf must also provide for the collection of such non-household WEEE.", "article": "Art. 5(5) and Art. 13", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-prod-mark-item-eee", "role": "producer", "kind": "mark", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Mark every item of EEE placed on the market with the crossed-out wheeled bin of Annex IX, visibly, legibly and indelibly and preferably in accordance with EN 50419:2022; only where the size or function of the product makes this necessary may the symbol go on the packaging, the instructions and the warranty instead. Add the Article 15(2) mark showing that the equipment was placed on the market after 13 August 2005, for photovoltaic panels from 13 August 2012 and for open-scope EEE from 15 August 2018; EN 50419:2022, which the directive recommends, also identifies the producer and the date.", "article": "Art. 12(3), Art. 14(4), Art. 15(2) and Annex IX", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-prod-year-placing-new", "role": "producer", "kind": "data", "level": "product", "timing": "after-placing", "text": "Within one year after placing a new type of EEE on the Union market for the first time, provide re-use centres and treatment and recycling facilities, free of charge and in manuals or electronic form, with the information they need on preparation for re-use and treatment, identifying components and materials and the location of dangerous substances and mixtures.", "article": "Art. 15(1)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-prod-report-register-annex", "role": "producer", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "periodic", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Report to the register the Annex X, Part B data per category: the quantity of EEE placed on the national market by weight and the quantity of WEEE separately collected, recycled including prepared for re-use, recovered and disposed of or shipped within or outside the Union, and keep records of the weight of WEEE leaving collection facilities and entering and leaving treatment and recovery facilities. In Denmark the annual report to Dansk Producentansvar is due by 31 March for the preceding calendar year, with an auditor's attestation by 31 May unless a size exemption applies.", "article": "Art. 11(4), Art. 16(2)(c) and Annex X, Part B; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 13 and § 14", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-prod-report-annex-x-data", "role": "producer", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "periodic", "text": "Report to the register the Annex X, Part B data per category: EEE placed on the national market by weight and WEEE separately collected, recycled, recovered, disposed of or shipped; in Denmark to Dansk Producentansvar by 31 March for the preceding calendar year.", "article": "Art. 16(2)(c) and Annex X, Part B; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 13", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-prod-keep-weee-weight-records", "role": "producer", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "Keep records of the weight of WEEE leaving collection facilities and entering and leaving treatment and recovery facilities.", "article": "Art. 11(4)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-prod-submit-auditor-attestation", "role": "producer", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "periodic", "text": "In Denmark, submit an auditor's attestation of the annual report by 31 May unless a size exemption applies.", "article": "§ 14", "sourceUrl": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942" }, { "id": "weee-prod-set-individually-collectively", "role": "producer", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Set up, individually or collectively, systems for the recovery of WEEE using best available techniques and meet the Annex V, Part 3 minimum targets for all separately collected WEEE: 85 % recovery and 80 % preparing for re-use and recycling for temperature exchange and large equipment, 80 % and 70 % for screens, 75 % and 55 % for small equipment and small IT equipment, and 80 % recycling for lamps; treatment must at least remove all fluids and the Annex VII substances and components, and WEEE exported outside the Union counts only where equivalent treatment conditions are proven.", "article": "Art. 8(2) and (3), Art. 10(2), Art. 11(1) and Annex V, Part 3", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-prod-prevent-weee-being", "role": "producer", "kind": "decision", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Do not prevent WEEE from being re-used through specific design features or manufacturing processes unless they bring overriding advantages for the environment or safety, and where you are established in another Member State appoint an authorised representative by written mandate; a distance seller selling into a Member State where it is not established must do so.", "article": "Art. 4 and Art. 17", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-prod-design-for-re-use", "role": "producer", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Do not prevent WEEE from being re-used through specific design features or manufacturing processes unless they bring overriding advantages for the environment or safety.", "article": "Art. 4", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-prod-appoint-authorised-representative", "role": "producer", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Where you sell EEE by distance contract into a Member State where you are not established, appoint an authorised representative there by written mandate; a producer established in another Member State may do so.", "article": "Art. 17", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-dist-take-back-old", "role": "distributor", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "When supplying a new product to a private household, take back the old equipment of equivalent type that fulfilled the same functions, at least free of charge and on a one-to-one basis, unless the Member State has arranged an equally easy and free alternative for the final holder.", "article": "Art. 5(2)(b)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-dist-immediate-proximity-collect", "role": "distributor", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "In retail shops with sales areas relating to EEE of at least 400 m², or in their immediate proximity, collect very small WEEE with no external dimension over 25 cm free of charge for end-users and without any obligation to buy, unless an assessment made public shows that existing collection schemes are at least as effective.", "article": "Art. 5(2)(c)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-dist-ensure-weee-receive", "role": "distributor", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Ensure that WEEE you receive is passed on for proper treatment under Article 8, and transmit the information on the WEEE received by you that the Member State needs to establish its collection rate, free of charge; WEEE that presents a health and safety risk because of contamination may be refused.", "article": "Art. 5(2)(c) and (e) and Art. 7(2)(b)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-dist-pass-weee-for-treatment", "role": "distributor", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "Ensure that WEEE you receive is passed on for proper treatment under Article 8; WEEE that presents a health and safety risk because of contamination may be refused.", "article": "Art. 5(2)(c) and (e)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-dist-transmit-collection-information", "role": "distributor", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "periodic", "text": "Transmit free of charge the information on the WEEE you received that the Member State needs to establish its collection rate.", "article": "Art. 7(2)(b)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-dist-provide-users-information", "role": "distributor", "kind": "data", "level": "product-market", "timing": "at-listing", "text": "Provide users with the information the Member State requires, for example in the instructions for use or at the point of sale: that WEEE must not be disposed of as unsorted municipal waste, which return and collection systems exist, the user's role in re-use and recycling, the effects of hazardous substances and the meaning of the crossed-out wheeled bin.", "article": "Art. 14(2) and (5)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-dist-check-producer-resell", "role": "distributor", "kind": "status", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Check who the producer is: if you resell under your own name or trademark, or place EEE from another country on the market on a professional basis, you are yourself a producer with the full registration, financing, marking and reporting duties. In Denmark a distributor may not acquire and sell EEE from producers that are not registered in the producer register.", "article": "Art. 3(1)(f)(ii) and (iii) and Art. 3(1)(g); https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 12 and § 70, nr. 4", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-dist-producer-when-reselling", "role": "distributor", "kind": "status", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "If you resell EEE under your own name or trademark, or place EEE from another country on the market on a professional basis, you are yourself a producer with the full registration, financing, marking and reporting duties.", "article": "Art. 3(1)(f)(ii) and (iii) and Art. 3(1)(g)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-dist-buy-registered-producers-only", "role": "distributor", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "In Denmark, do not acquire and sell EEE from producers that are not registered in the producer register.", "article": "§ 12 and § 70, nr. 4", "sourceUrl": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942" }, { "id": "weee-oth-act-written-mandate", "role": "other", "kind": "status", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Act under a written mandate from the producer and take responsibility for fulfilling that producer's obligations under the directive on the territory of the Member State where you are established; a producer established in another Member State may appoint you, and a distance seller selling into your Member State must.", "article": "Art. 17(1) to (3)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-oth-register-national-producer", "role": "other", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Register in the national producer register with the Annex X, Part A information, including your own name, address and contact person and the contact details of the producer you represent, and undertake to keep it up to date. In Denmark the producer registers its representative with Dansk Producentansvar, which asks the representative to confirm the registration digitally within 7 days; each producer may register only one representative.", "article": "Art. 16(1) and (2)(a) and (b) and Annex X, Part A, point 1; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 7, stk. 4 and 5", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-oth-report-annex-part", "role": "other", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "periodic", "text": "Report the Annex X, Part B data for the represented producer: reporting period, category, quantity of EEE placed on the national market by weight and quantities of WEEE separately collected, recycled, recovered, disposed of and shipped.", "article": "Art. 16(2)(c) and Annex X, Part B", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "id": "weee-oth-ensure-financing-guarantee", "role": "other", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "Ensure the financing, guarantee, marking and information duties of Articles 12 to 15 are met for the represented producer's equipment on your territory, since the mandate makes you the person responsible for the producer's obligations there.", "article": "Art. 12 to Art. 15 and Art. 17(1) and (2)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" } ], "requirementsHash": "5a3fdb4c98a45966", "penalties": { "text": "Member States lay down the rules on penalties for infringements of their national provisions adopted under the directive; the penalties must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive and had to be notified to the Commission by 14 February 2014. Member States must also inspect and monitor at least the information reported to the producer register, shipments and in particular exports of WEEE outside the Union, and the operations at treatment facilities, and may charge the costs of analysing and storing used EEE suspected to be WEEE to the producers or the persons arranging the shipment. In Denmark the elektronikaffaldsbekendtgørelsen, executive order nr. 942 of 20 June 2025, punishes with a fine anyone who places EEE on the market without being registered, gives incorrect or misleading registration information, sells equipment from unregistered producers, fails to report or reports incorrectly, fails to provide the financial guarantee, fails to mark the equipment, fails to take back or collect assigned WEEE or ignores an order from the supervisory authority; the penalty can rise to imprisonment of up to 2 years where the infringement was intentional or grossly negligent and caused environmental damage or a financial gain, and companies can be held criminally liable. Miljøstyrelsen supervises the producer duties, may order documents, data and supply-chain information, buy test products under a hidden identity and order online content changed or removed, and hears appeals against decisions of Dansk Producentansvar within 4 weeks.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 22 and Art. 23; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 65 to § 70" }, "checklist": [ "Confirm each product is EEE within 1 000 V AC or 1 500 V DC and that no Article 2(3) or 2(4) exclusion applies; assign it to one of the six Annex III categories, noting that photovoltaic panels fall in large equipment.", "Map where you are a producer: where you manufacture or brand, where you resell under your own brand, where you import on a professional basis, and every Member State you sell into by distance communication (Article 3(1)(f)).", "Register in each national producer register before placing products on that market, with the Annex X, Part A data; in Denmark register with Dansk Producentansvar at least 14 days before the first sale (Article 16, § 6).", "For Member States where you are not established, appoint an authorised representative by written mandate and register through it; distance sellers must (Article 17).", "Choose how to finance: join a collective scheme or set up an individual system, and put the financial guarantee in place for every product placed on the market (Article 12(3)).", "Apply the crossed-out wheeled bin and the producer and date mark to the equipment itself, per EN 50419:2022, and move it to the packaging, instructions and warranty only where size or function requires (Articles 14(4) and 15(2), Annex IX).", "Publish the re-use and treatment information for each new type of EEE within one year of first placing it on the Union market (Article 15(1)).", "Set up the data flow for the annual report of quantities placed on the market and WEEE collected and treated, per category and by weight; in Denmark by 31 March with the auditor's attestation by 31 May (Article 16(2)(c), Annex X, Part B, §§ 13 and 14).", "If you are a distributor, organise free one-to-one take-back at the point of sale and, in shops with at least 400 m² of EEE sales area, collection of very small WEEE without purchase (Article 5(2)).", "Keep the registration current, record changes within one month in Denmark, and re-check the framework after the Commission's Article 24a review, due by 31 December 2026." ], "faq": [ { "q": "When did the WEEE Directive start to apply?", "a": "Directive 2012/19/EU entered into force on 13 August 2012, the twentieth day after its publication in the Official Journal of 24 July 2012, and from that date applied to the ten Annex I categories including photovoltaic panels. Member States had to transpose it by 14 February 2014, and Directive 2002/96/EC was repealed with effect from 15 February 2014. Since 15 August 2018 the directive applies to all EEE, classified in the six Annex III categories.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 2(1), Art. 24(1), Art. 25 and Art. 26" }, { "q": "Which products are covered by the open scope?", "a": "All electrical and electronic equipment, meaning equipment that depends on electric currents or electromagnetic fields to work properly or that generates, transfers or measures them, rated for not more than 1 000 V AC or 1 500 V DC. Every such product is classified in one of six categories: temperature exchange equipment, screens and monitors over 100 cm², lamps, large equipment over 50 cm, small equipment up to 50 cm and small IT and telecommunication equipment up to 50 cm. The exclusions are military and security equipment, equipment that only functions as part of excluded equipment, filament bulbs, space equipment, large-scale stationary industrial tools, large-scale fixed installations, means of transport other than non-type-approved electric two-wheelers, professional non-road mobile machinery, business-to-business research and development equipment, and infective or active implantable medical devices.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 2(1), (3) and (4), Art. 3(1)(a) and Annex III" }, { "q": "Am I a WEEE producer if I sell electronics online to customers in another EU country?", "a": "Yes. A business that sells EEE by distance communication directly to private households or other users in a Member State while established in another Member State or a third country is a producer in the Member State it sells into. It must be registered in that country's producer register and, where it is not established there, must appoint an authorised representative by written mandate who is responsible for its registration, financing, marking and reporting duties. In Denmark the representative is registered with Dansk Producentansvar at least 14 days before the first sale.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 3(1)(f)(iv), Art. 16(1) and Art. 17(2) and (3); https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 6" }, { "q": "What is the crossed-out wheeled bin symbol and where must it be placed?", "a": "The Annex IX symbol indicates that the equipment must be collected separately and not disposed of as unsorted municipal waste. Producers must print it visibly, legibly and indelibly on the EEE itself, preferably in accordance with EN 50419:2022; only in exceptional cases where the size or function of the product makes it necessary may it be printed on the packaging, the instructions for use and the warranty instead. A further mark must show that the equipment was placed on the market after 13 August 2005, for photovoltaic panels from 13 August 2012 and for open-scope EEE from 15 August 2018, so that the financing responsibility can be determined.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 14(2)(e), Art. 14(4), Art. 15(2) and Annex IX" }, { "q": "What must a retailer do with a customer's old electronics?", "a": "When a distributor supplies a new product to a private household, the customer may return an old item of equivalent type that fulfilled the same functions, at least free of charge and one-to-one, unless the Member State has ensured an equally easy free alternative. Retail shops with at least 400 m² of sales area relating to EEE, or their immediate proximity, must also accept very small WEEE with no external dimension over 25 cm free of charge and without any purchase. Contaminated WEEE that presents a health and safety risk may be refused, and everything collected must be passed on for proper treatment.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 5(2)(b), (c) and (e) and Art. 8" }, { "q": "What did Directive (EU) 2024/884 change for photovoltaic panels?", "a": "It implements the Court of Justice judgment of 25 January 2022 in Case C-181/20, which found that making producers pay for waste from panels placed on the market before the directive existed had an unjustified retroactive effect. Since 8 April 2024 Articles 12 and 13 provide that producers finance WEEE from photovoltaic panels only where the panels were placed on the market from 13 August 2012, and WEEE from open-scope EEE only where it was placed on the market from 15 August 2018; for other Annex I equipment the 13 August 2005 line stays. The date mark in Article 15(2) follows the same dates, the marking standard is updated to EN 50419:2022, and Article 24a obliges the Commission to assess by 31 December 2026 whether photovoltaic panels need their own category and a mechanism that covers the waste costs if a producer fails. Member States had to transpose the amendment by 9 October 2025; Denmark did so in executive order nr. 942 of 20 June 2025.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024L0884 · recitals 4 to 11, Art. 1, Art. 2(1) and Art. 3; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · note 1 and § 71" }, { "q": "How does producer responsibility for electronics work in Denmark?", "a": "The directive is implemented by the elektronikaffaldsbekendtgørelsen, executive order nr. 942 of 20 June 2025, in force since 1 July 2025. Producers and importers, including foreign distance sellers, register in the producer register kept by Dansk Producentansvar at least 14 days before they first place equipment on the Danish market, report the quantities placed on the market and the WEEE taken back and treated by 31 March each year with an auditor's attestation by 31 May, mark their equipment with the crossed-out wheeled bin and provide a financial guarantee. Miljøstyrelsen supervises these duties and hears appeals against DPA decisions; placing equipment on the market without registration, guarantee or marking, or failing to report, is punishable by a fine and, in serious intentional or grossly negligent cases, by up to 2 years' imprisonment.", "source": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · § 5, § 6, § 13, § 14, § 43, § 54, § 65, § 69, § 70 and § 71; https://mst.dk/erhverv/groen-produktion-og-affald/affald-og-genanvendelse/producentansvar/elektronik" } ], "changelog": [ { "date": "2026-09-11", "kind": "guidance", "title": "Guide rebuilt on the structured model from the consolidated text of 8 April 2024", "summary": "The page now carries the applicability rules, obligations by role, key dates, penalties and FAQ with article references from the consolidated directive, Directive (EU) 2018/849 and Directive (EU) 2024/884. Additions compared with the previous text: the six Annex III categories and the Article 2(3) and 2(4) exclusions, the 45 % and 65 % collection rates and the Annex V, Part 3 recovery targets, the 13 August 2005, 13 August 2012 and 15 August 2018 financing and marking dates, the retailer take-back rules, and the Danish executive order nr. 942 of 20 June 2025 with Miljøstyrelsen as supervisory authority.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 2 to Art. 17, Art. 22 to Art. 26 and Annexes III, V, IX and X" }, { "date": "2025-10-09", "kind": "applies", "title": "Transposition deadline for Directive (EU) 2024/884", "summary": "Member States had to bring into force the laws implementing the revised financing rules for photovoltaic panels and open-scope EEE, the EN 50419:2022 reference and the limited date mark by this date.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024L0884 · Art. 2(1)" }, { "date": "2025-07-02", "kind": "guidance", "title": "Commission evaluation of the WEEE Directive published", "summary": "The Staff Working Documents SWD(2025) 184 and 185 find the directive relevant, coherent and proportionate but report that nearly half of the WEEE generated is not collected, that only about 40 % is recycled in the EU, that extended producer responsibility is implemented unevenly with enforcement gaps particularly for online sellers, and that the scope does not address new waste streams such as wind turbines; the Commission will use the findings in the revision under the Circular Economy Act.", "source": "https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-evaluation-looks-how-improve-weee-directive-2025-07-02_en" }, { "date": "2025-07-01", "kind": "applies", "title": "Denmark: elektronikaffaldsbekendtgørelsen nr. 942 of 20 June 2025 in force", "summary": "The new Danish executive order implements Directive (EU) 2024/884 and replaces executive order nr. 1566 of 19 December 2022; registration with Dansk Producentansvar at least 14 days before the first placing on the market, annual reporting by 31 March, Miljøstyrelsen as supervisory authority for the producer duties, and fines or up to 2 years' imprisonment for infringements.", "source": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942 · note 1, § 6, § 13, § 65, § 70 and § 71" }, { "date": "2024-04-08", "kind": "amendment", "title": "Directive (EU) 2024/884 in force: photovoltaic panels and open-scope financing", "summary": "Following the Court's judgment in Case C-181/20, the amending directive of 13 March 2024 limits producer financing under Articles 12 and 13 to photovoltaic panels placed on the market from 13 August 2012 and open-scope EEE placed on the market from 15 August 2018, aligns the Article 15(2) date mark, updates the marking reference to EN 50419:2022 and inserts the Article 24a review due by 31 December 2026; transposition by 9 October 2025.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024L0884 · Art. 1, Art. 2(1) and Art. 3" }, { "date": "2020-07-05", "kind": "applies", "title": "Transposition deadline for Directive (EU) 2018/849", "summary": "Member States had to implement the new electronic data reporting to the Commission under Article 16(6) to (9) and may use the Article 16a economic instruments from this date.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32018L0849 · Art. 4(1)" }, { "date": "2019-01-01", "kind": "applies", "title": "Collection rate rises to 65 % or 85 % of WEEE generated", "summary": "From 2019 each Member State must collect annually at least 65 % of the average weight of EEE placed on its market in the three preceding years, or alternatively 85 % of the WEEE generated on its territory; Bulgaria, Czechia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia could postpone this until 14 August 2021 at the latest.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 7(1) and Art. 7(3)" }, { "date": "2018-08-15", "kind": "applies", "title": "Open scope: all EEE in six categories", "summary": "The transitional Annex I list ends; the directive applies to all EEE classified in the six Annex III categories, the seven additional Article 2(4) exclusions take effect, the Annex V, Part 3 recovery targets apply, and producer financing and the date mark for open-scope EEE start for equipment placed on the market from this date.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 2(1)(b), Art. 2(4), Art. 12(1)(c), Art. 13(1)(c), Art. 15(2) and Annex V, Part 3" }, { "date": "2018-07-04", "kind": "amendment", "title": "Directive (EU) 2018/849 in force: data reporting and waste-hierarchy incentives", "summary": "The amending directive of 30 May 2018, published in OJ L 150 on 14 June 2018, deleted Article 16(5), added Article 16(6) to (9) on electronic reporting to the Commission within 18 months of the reporting year with a quality check report, inserted Article 16a and narrowed the Article 19 delegated-act power to Annexes IV, VII, VIII and IX; transposition by 5 July 2020.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32018L0849 · Art. 3, Art. 4(1) and Art. 5" }, { "date": "2016-01-01", "kind": "applies", "title": "Minimum collection rate of 45 % applies", "summary": "From 2016 each Member State must collect annually at least 45 % of the average weight of EEE placed on its market in the three preceding years, with the volume evolving gradually to the 2019 rate; the previous 4 kg per inhabitant rate applied until 31 December 2015.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 7(1)" }, { "date": "2014-02-15", "kind": "applies", "title": "National transposing laws apply; Directive 2002/96/EC repealed", "summary": "Member States had to bring their transposing laws into force by 14 February 2014, and the previous WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC with its amendments 2003/108/EC and 2008/34/EC is repealed with effect from 15 February 2014; references to it are read as references to Directive 2012/19/EU.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 24(1), Art. 25 and Annex XI" }, { "date": "2012-08-13", "kind": "in-force", "title": "Directive 2012/19/EU enters into force", "summary": "Adopted on 4 July 2012 and published in OJ L 197 on 24 July 2012, the recast directive entered into force on the twentieth day after publication and applied from that date to the ten Annex I categories, including photovoltaic panels, during the transitional period to 14 August 2018.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408 · Art. 2(1)(a) and Art. 26" } ], "sources": [ { "label": "Directive 2012/19/EU on waste electrical and electronic equipment, consolidated text of 8 April 2024 (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012L0019-20240408" }, { "label": "Directive 2012/19/EU as published in OJ L 197, 24 July 2012 (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32012L0019" }, { "label": "Document information, dates and relationships for CELEX 32012L0019 (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32012L0019" }, { "label": "Directive (EU) 2018/849 amending Directives 2000/53/EC, 2006/66/EC and 2012/19/EU (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32018L0849" }, { "label": "Directive (EU) 2024/884 amending Directive 2012/19/EU on waste electrical and electronic equipment (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024L0884" }, { "label": "Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 on market surveillance and compliance of products, Annex I (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020" }, { "label": "Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) (European Commission, DG Environment)", "url": "https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/waste-and-recycling/waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-weee_en" }, { "label": "New evaluation looks at how to improve WEEE Directive, 2 July 2025 (European Commission, DG Environment)", "url": "https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-evaluation-looks-how-improve-weee-directive-2025-07-02_en" }, { "label": "Bekendtgørelse nr. 942 af 20. juni 2025 om at bringe elektrisk og elektronisk udstyr i omsætning samt håndtering af affald af sådant udstyr (elektronikaffaldsbekendtgørelsen) (Retsinformation)", "url": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/942" }, { "label": "Producentansvar for elektronik (Miljøstyrelsen)", "url": "https://mst.dk/erhverv/groen-produktion-og-affald/affald-og-genanvendelse/producentansvar/elektronik" } ], "reviewer": { "name": "Conphora compliance team", "role": "Compliance editors, Conphora" }, "reviewedAt": "2026-09-24", "nextReview": "2027-03-14", "links": { "tools": [], "courses": [], "related": { "en": "/regulations/weee/", "dk": "/dk/eu-regulativer/weee/" } } }