G/TBT/N/EU/541  
 
8 February 2018  
(18-0882) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member: EUROPEAN UNION   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible: European Commission  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
European Commission,  
EU-TBT Enquiry Point,  
Fax: +(32) 2 299 80 43,  
E-mail: grow-eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools -databases/tbt/en/   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [   ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [ X], 5.7.1 [   ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Electrical 
and electronic equipment  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft 
Commission Implementing Regulation establishing the format for registration and reporting 
of producers of electrical and electronic equipment and the frequency of reporting to the 
register (and its accompanying annex) (4 pages + Annex 13 pages, in English)   
6. Description of content: The draft Commission Implementing Regulation establishes a 
common format for registration and reporting of producers of electrical and electronic 
equipment and a common frequency of reporting to the register.  
7. Objective and ra tionale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Harmonisation of rules and procedures applied at Member State level.  
The Directive 2012/19/EU on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) provides 
for Member States to draw up a register for producers of electrical and electronic 
equipment (EEE), including producers supplying EEE by means of distance communication. 
Member States shall ensure that each producer, or each authorised representative, is 
registered and report to the register.  
The WEEE Directive does not include a format for registration and reporting and does not 
set a common frequency of reporting. This means that each Member State has established 
a process for registration and reporting and a frequency of reporting. This situation may 
cause administrative burdens especially to producers supplying EEE by means of distance 
communication in different Member  States as well as to producers that place EEE on the 
market of different Member States and have to be registered and report to each Member 
State using different formats, and in different frequency.  
The objective of the proposal is to ensure uniform condit ions for producers' registration 
and reporting. Harmonisation of registration and reporting formats and of the frequency of 
reporting is addressed in the draft Implementing Regulation.  G/TBT/N/EU/541  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
 Scientific background study on harmonisation o f the format for  
registration and reporting of producers of electrical and electronic equipment  
(EEE) to the national register and on the frequency of reporting 
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/weee/pdf/Study%20on%20Registration%
20and%20Reporting_Final%20report.pdf   
 Directive 2012/19/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of  
4 July 2012 on waste electrical and elect ronic equipment (WEEE). http://eur -
lex.europa.eu/legal -content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32012L0019   
9. Proposed date of adoption: June 2018  
Proposed date of entry into force: 20 days from publication in the Official Journal of the 
EU (The provisions shall apply from 1 January 2019 according to the proposed 
implementing regulation)  
10. Final date for comments: 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [  ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:   
European Commission,  
EU-TBT Enquiry Point,  
Fax: + (32) 2 299 80 43,  
E-mail: grow-eu-tbt@ec.europa .eu 
The text is available on the EU -TBT Website:  
http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools -databases/tbt/en/  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/EEC/18_0785_00_e.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/EEC/18_0785_01_e.pdf