Consultation outcome

Waste electrical and electronic equipment: amending the 2013 UK regulations

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 20 October 2017
• Last updated: 22 May 2018
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  1. 22 May 2018

     Summary of responses document replaced to correct some formatting issues within the document.

  2. 18 May 2018

     Summary of responses added.

  3. 20 October 2017

     First published.

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Summary of responses and government response

PDF, 2.24 MB, 36 pages

Regulatory Triage Assessment of the WEEE Directive

PDF, 1.35 MB, 27 pages

Detail of outcome

We received 107 responses to this consultation. The summary of responses sets out how the government intends to take forward each of the issues on which views were sought.

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Original consultation

Summary

Seeking views on proposed amendments to the 2013 WEEE regulations, including introducing "Open Scope" requirements.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
20 October 2017 to 11:45pm on 8 December 2017

Consultation description

We want to know what you think about plans to amend the UK’s 2013 regulations for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). The changes will include:

• introducing “Open Scope” requirements, which extends the regulations to all electrical and electronic equipment unless specifically exempt
• making membership to the Producer Balancing Scheme compulsory
• changing how producer fees are allocated in the UK

We also want to know what you think of the 2013 WEEE Regulations. Have they improved the environment at a proportionate cost to business? We will use these views to inform the Post Implementation Review next year.