Introduction
What are the WEEE and RoHS Directives?
How will the Directives affect my company?
Registering as a Producer
Collecting and Submitting Data
Compliance
Reporting compliance
Compliance Schemes
Information requirements
Financial Guarantees
Household WEEE
Business WEEE
Supply chain actions
Suppliers Actions
WEEE Documentation
Practical Actions for compliance
Actions for Complying with RoHS
Lead Free
How do I raise awareness?
Tools resources and further information
Site map
Actions for complying with WEEE / Supply chain actions / Producers Actions


Producers Actions

1. Define your status. Are you a producer?
2. Register as a producer with the relevant agency.
3.

List each of your products and identify which categories they fall into.
4.

Identify the number of units sold in your own country each year and the number ofunits imported by you or manufactured for you each year. Include historic products.
5.

Collect data on the weight of your products in each of the ten WEEE categories. Thismay involve contacting suppliers for data on product and component weights.
6. Identify if any components or sub-assemblies require pre-treatment or removal.
7.

Organise meetings with suppliers to remove any unnecessary weight from products and components.
8.

Organise meetings with suppliers to consider design changes that could reduce the components requiring pre-treatment or removal.
9.

Consider the benefits and costs of meeting your recovery and recycling targets yourself or via a third party compliance scheme.
10.

Assess the implications for historic WEEE by estimating historic sales volumes and weights.
11. Develop recycling and disassembly guidance material for use by reprocessors.
12.

Work with suppliers to ensure that the relevant labelling requirements are met (manufacturer I.D, date of manufacture, crossed out wheelie-bin symbol).
13.

If you selling your product to another business you will need to enter contract negotiations to define who pays the cost of recycling at end-of-life.