Extended responsibility of producers of electrical and electronic equipment

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Pursuant to the Law of 21 March 2012 on waste, as amended, and the Law of 9 June 2022 on waste electrical and electronic equipment, waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is subject to the principle of extended producer responsibility.

With a view to promoting prevention, reuse, reutilisation, recycling and any other form of recovery of waste, the producers of products (those who place electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) on the market) are subject to the extended producer responsibility scheme.

As a result, the producer of products must fulfil a number of obligations.

Who is concerned

Producers of products

The producer of products is any natural or legal person:

  • established in Luxembourg and who, on a professional basis, manufactures, fills or sells products directly in Luxembourg, irrespective of the selling technique used, including through distance contracts, and places products on the Luxembourg market; or
  • who is the first party to receive, on a professional basis, products imported into Luxembourg by any natural or legal person, whether established in Luxembourg or not, irrespective of the selling technique used, including distance contracts, and places products on the Luxembourg market; or
  • established outside Luxembourg and who, on a professional basis, sells products in Luxembourg directly to households or to users other than households, irrespective of the selling technique used, including distance contracts.

Producers of products also include:

  • anyone who has EEE designed or manufactured in Luxembourg and markets it under their own name or trademark in Luxembourg;
  • with the exception of persons who exclusively provide financing under or pursuant to any financing agreement, unless they also act as a producer within the meaning of the definition of producers of products.

Products concerned

Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).

WEEE is waste that comes from:

  • equipment that requires electric currents or electromagnetic fields to work properly;
  • equipment for the generation, transfer and measurement of such currents and fields.

The law of 9 June 2022 on WEEE applies to the following categories of EEE:

  • temperature exchange equipment;
  • screens, monitors and equipment containing screens having a surface area greater than 100 cm2;
  • lamps;
  • large equipment (at least one external dimension exceeds 50 cm);
  • small equipment (all external dimensions are less than or equal to 50 cm);
  • small IT and telecommunication equipment (all external dimensions are less than or equal to 50 cm).

How to proceed

Household EEE

Producers of household EEE must contractually entrust to an approved organisation the performance of all the obligations incumbent upon them. For the time being, the non-profit organisation Ecotrel ASBL is the only organisation authorised to endorse these obligations. Producers of products must therefore become members of Ecotrel.

For further information, please contact Ecotrel ASBL by email at: administration@ecotrel.lu or by telephone on (+352) 26 09 81.

Non-household EEE

Producers of non-household EEE can:

  • either become members of the approved organisation, Ecotrel, by signing a service agreement and applying for a partial individual EEE-B2B approval from the Environment Agency;
  • or fulfil all their obligations themselves, by applying for individual approval from the Environment Agency. Individual approval must be applied for online using the e-RA tool. Any producer who fulfils the take-back obligation themselves (individual approval) must submit an annual report to the Environment Agency using the e-RA tool, by 30 April at the latest.

If you would like more information, please contact the Environment Agency by email at deee@aev.etat.lu.

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