Much has been said and discussed about the EU Directive 2002/96/EC, better known by WEEE Directive (Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment).
Although a European Directive has no legal force, acting only as a guideline for future transposition into national law of each Member - State (MS), the truth is that the pioneerism of this Directive and its applicability related to the management of WEEE, has led to various interpretations. As a result, instead of ensuring that all 27 MS applyed similar management policies related to this subject, we noted that each country, in accordance with the dimension of its electric and electronic market, adopted divergent paths, which converged to some disharmony and asymmetry of markets.
As this Directive has generated some fussabout around the theme, the European Commission initiated a revision of its guidelines. ANREEE supports and welcomes the European Commission's initiative.
However, the recast of the Directive brought a surprise and why not say so, some concern, given the topics under review, including those that include the registration of producers and the consequences that may arise therefrom.
ANREEE considered that given the experience over nearly four years of existence, especially in the practical implementation of this Directive, could not fail to make a contribution in some matters that maintaining the current course, could clash against the long-awaited harmonization.
Accordingly, our association along with the European pairs, EWRN - European WEEE Register Network, worked a position paper, which was presented in Brussels last June, to the General Division of Environment, to its representative Mr . Klaus Koëgler and also released to the Portuguese Environment Agency.
See the position paper HERE.

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