The European Commission has proposed an amendment to the EU’s waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) directive which effectivelly passes responsibility for non-household historical waste on to new equipment suppliers. The proposal follows in the wake of concern that the directive in its original form would have crippled those companies which had sold large volumes of equipment to non-household users prior to the directive coming into force, but which had since suffered a drop in sales.
Under the Commission’s new draft of the WEEE directive, costs of treating historical non-household waste are to be borne by the supplier of new replacement equipment.
