EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WASTE ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT) REGULATIONS 2011
Source: Iris Oifigiúl 2011-07-12

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paragraphs: These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Regulations 2011.
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paragraphs: The purposes for which these Regulations are made include the purpose of giving further effect to provisions of European Parliament and Council Directive 2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment as amended by European Parliament and Council Directive 2003/108/EC of 8 December 2003 amending Directive 2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment and by Article 5 of Directive 2008/112/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 amending Council Directives 76/768/EEC, 88/378/EEC, 1999/13/EC and Directives 2000/53/EC, 2002/96/EC and 2004/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council in order to adapt them to Regulation (EC) No. 1272/2008.
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paragraphs: (1) In these Regulations, any reference to a Schedule or article that is not otherwise identified is a reference to a Schedule or article of these Regulations.
(2) In these Regulations, any reference to a sub-article or paragraph that is not otherwise identified is a reference to the sub-article or paragraph of the provision in which the reference occurs.
(3) In these Regulations, save where the context otherwise requires—
(i) a civic amenity facility, or
(ii) other facility for the receipt, storage or recovery of waste electrical and electronic equipment
(a) means any mixture which has to be considered dangerous under Directive 1999/45/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 May 1999 concerning the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous preparations or any substance which fulfils the criteria for any of the following hazard classes or categories set out in Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures—
(i) hazard classes 2.1 to 2.4, 2.6 and 2.7, 2.8 types A and B, 2.9, 2.10, 2.12, 2.13 categories 1 and 2, 2.14 categories 1 and 2, 2.15 types A to F,
(ii) hazard classes 3.1 to 3.6, 3.7 adverse effects on sexual function and fertility or on development, 3.8 effects other than narcotic effects, 3.9 and 3.10,
(iii) hazard class 4.1, or
(iv) hazard class 5.1; and
(b) on and from 1 June 2015 means any substance or mixture which fulfils the criteria for any of the following hazard classes or categories set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No. 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures—
(i) hazard classes 2.1 to 2.4, 2.6 and 2.7, 2.8 types A and B, 2.9, 2.10, 2.12, 2.13 categories 1 and 2, 2.14 categories 1 and 2, 2.15 types A to F,
(ii) hazard classes 3.1 to 3.6, 3.7 adverse effects on sexual function and fertility or on development, 3.8 effects other than narcotic effects, 3.9 and 3.10,
(iii) hazard class 4.1, or
(iv) hazard class 5.1;
(i) sold in exchange for any consideration including money whether or not by finance agreement, including but not exclusive to any loan, lease, hiring or deferred sale agreement or arrangement relating to any electrical and electronic equipment whether or not the terms of that agreement or arrangement or any collateral agreement or arrangement provide that a transfer of ownership of that equipment will or may take place, or
(ii) giving as a prize or otherwise making a gift;
(i) buys, sells or arranges for the purchase, sale or transfer of waste from one person to another, or
(ii) arranges for the collection, recovery or disposal of waste;
(i) manufactures and sells electrical and electronic equipment under his or her own brand,
(ii) resells under his or her own brand equipment produced by other suppliers, a reseller not being regarded as the ‘producer’ if the brand of the producer appears on the equipment, as provided for in sub-paragraph (i), or
(iii) imports or exports electrical and electronic equipment on a professional basis into a Member State.
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paragraphs: (1) These Regulations, save where the context otherwise requires, shall apply—