德国就欧盟两项电子指令转换工作的最新情况（英文版）

    德国就欧盟两项电子指令转换工作的最新情况如下：

Germany Feb 2005 Cabinet approved draft WEEE Law (ElektroG) transposing the WEEE and RoHS Directives on 1 September 2004. Parliament’s lower house (Bundestag) approved it in mid-December and the Bundesrat (Länder) on 18 February 2005. It entered into force on day after its publication on 23 March 2005.

Key provisions:

• Deadlines:
At the latest 8 month after publication (i.e. 23 November 2005):
→ Producer registration
→ Provision of collection containers
→ Data reporting
→ Provision of financial guarantee.At the latest 1 year after publication (i.e. 23 March 2006):
→ Marking
→ Producer take back and treatment

• Collection of WEEE from Households: Municipalities to operate and finance collection points for free-of-charge take-back. Producers to provide containers for six collection categories (Large household, Cooling, ITC, CRTs, mercury lamps, small appliances and others).Municipalities may recover collected WEEE themselves. NO 1:1 takeback at retailers.

• Producer responsibility: Proportional to share of EEE marketed in current year. For ‘new’ WEEE an individual producer may request the Central Register to calculate fees based on his EEE in waste stream only if the producer provides evidence of his share.

• Clearing House: Responsibility of the Minister of Environment, but to be delegated to EAR, a foundation set up by trade associations ZVEI and Bitcom. Registration before 1 May 2005. Producers who sell directly to consumers in other member states must also register.

• Financial Guarantee: information to follow.

Industry activity:

• The EAR Foundation was founded on 12 February 2004 by 27 EEE manufacturers and 3 associations with the objective of accepting the ‘sovereign’ responsibilities from the government that are needed to act as single clearing house. Since March 2005, producers can test register on EAR Internet platform. Active registration is scheduled for June2005.

• The European Recycling Platform (ERP) the pan-European take back and compliance scheme initiated by Braun, Electrolux, HP and Sony announced the appointment of CCR and Geodis as general contractors in December 2004.

• In August 2004 Panasonic, Thomson and JVC agreed to establish recycling program for electronics and electrical equipment initially and later for other categories.

• Other industry players, e.g. Philips. Sharp and Loewe, have formed, or are in the process of forming, alliances to achieve bargaining power vis-a-vis the recyclers and obtain economies of scale. The competition authority has made it clear that it will not allow collective systems above 25% share of a collection category.

• Waste management companies, mostly SMEs, are also seeking alliances with each other to be able to offer nationwide take back of all collection categories. BVSE estimates 20 such groups will emerge nationwide.

来源：英国贸工部