Phare Project Implementation of WEEE Directive in the Slovak Republic, results and recommendations ELENA BODÍKOVÁ Slovak Environmental Agency Centre of Waste Management and Basel Convention Bratislava 17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava

17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava Scope of the Project to help the Slovak Ministry of the Environment (MoE) and the Slovak Environmental Agency (SEA) to create institutional and organizational conditions for sound implementation of the following Directives: Directive 2002/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 2003 on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), Directive 2002/95/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 27 January 2003 on the restriction of use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS), Directive 2003/108/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 8 December 2003 , amending and supplementing Directive 2002/96/ECon waste electric and electronic equipment (WEEE). with regards to Council Decision 2004/312/EC and Commission Decision 2004/249/EC of 11 March 2004, regarding the questionnaire of Member State Reports on implementation of Directive 2002/96/EC 17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava

Duration of the Project December 2005 – October 2006 17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava

Swedish Trade Council in Bratislava Contractor Swedish Trade Council in Bratislava Radoslav Jonáš, team leader, Mikael Hägglöf, Mannheimer Swartling, Sweden, lawyer, Rolph Hultermans, Royal Haskoning, Netherland, controller, Jaroslav Rácek, Dimano Bratislava, software specialist Pavol Takáč, local expert in the field of environmental law, Peter Krasnec – local expert in the sphere of collective schemes and waste management industry , Soňa Antalová – local expert in waste management industry. 17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava

Specific Objectives of the Project Analyze current situation in implementing Directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment and suggest amendment or supplementation in existing or preparatory national legislation on waste electrical and electronic equipment, Analyze individual and collective system of providing separate collection of WEEE, Suggest optimal system of providing separate collection of WEEE using best available techniques for treatment, reuse and recycling, Establish Register of Producers of electrical and electronic equipment as a part of information system on EEE and WEEE, Prepare and train personnel of the Slovak Environmental Agency with regards to sound data reporting on WEEE for the requirements of the EU. Train personnel of producers of electrical and electronic equipment and personnel of operators involved in treatment of WEEE responsible for data reporting records, Adequate promotion of project results. 17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava

17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava Results of the Project introduction report two quarterly reports final report the information system of WEEE (software) developed for SEA. All reports are available on web page of SEA (www.sazp.sk). 17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava

Working Group of the Project Biggest collective systems (Envidom, SEWA, Ekolamp) MoE Recycling Fund Bratislava´s municipality SEA 17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava

Working Group of the Project - objectives Definition of The main problems in the legislation (capacity, management and control and enforcement of law, namely classification of electric and electronic equipment, interpretation of definitions), Real targets for collection, Recovery, re-use and recycling of WEEE, Collective system and its obligations, Financial guarantee, Control, WEEE labelling in Slovakia, The main problems of the evidence and reporting, The main problems of the role of the Recycling Fund. 17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava

17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava 1st Quarterly Report analysis of the current state of transposition of the WEEE and RoHS directives analysis of WEEE from household and comparison of approach in some other EU countries 17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava

17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava 2nd Quarterly Report Analysis of the fee relevance - The model for a calculation of expenses of collection and management of selected category of WEEE (refrigerators) Comparison with expenses in other EU countries Waste Management Plan for WEEE Estimation of amounts of produced WEEE in Slovakia 17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava

Expected results of collection according targets set by the Government Year (kg/year/person) 2005 0.54 2006 1.82 2007 3.69 2008 4.05 17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava

Collection of WEEE in 2005 in tons Category Put on the market Collected % collection % collection (legislation) 1 24619 1805678,18 7,33 7,00 2 3609 187698,29 5,20 4,00 3 4404 77075,97 1,75 4 9570 766831,36 8,01 5 3015 26901,16 0,89 1,00 5a 750 68274,10 9,10 6 3872 24204,98 0,63 7 432 221,2 0,05 8 666 0,00 9 954 280 0,03 10 1219

Realised collection and management of WEEE in 2005 (source: ENVIDOM, EKOLAMP, ETALUX, SEWA, SEA) Category Realised in 2005 Targets Incinerated (t) Recycled (t) Landfilled (t) Removal (%) Recycling (%) 1 323,00 1132,00 161,00 90 70 80 75 2 27,00 97,70 15,00 89 50 3 22,00 187,00 11,00 95 85 65 4 41,00 348,00 21,00 5a 3,00 60,00 91 5b 8,00 57,00 7,00 79 6 2,00 7 0,48 1,57 0,20 8 9 10 Sum 427,48 1898,27 220,20 -

17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava Information System allows to: Keep Register of EEE producers, Process data resulting form reporting obligations of EEE producers, Process summary data for the national and international reporting needs 17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava

Main functions of the IS Management of the Register of customers , Management of the Register of producers of EEE, Management of the Register of the Collective Systems, Management of the Collective Systems clients, Evidence of producers reports, Evidence of Collective Systems reports, Crosscheck of reports, Elaboration of outputs. 17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava

17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava Register of Producers Producer of EEE MoE SR SEA CWMBC Public 17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava

17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava Producers Reports Producer of EEE MoE SR SEA CWMBC Data customer Producer of EEE MoE SR SEA CWMBC Data customer Collective System 17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava

Recommendations of the project To introduce obligation for municipalities to collect waste electrical and electronic equipment, To introduce obligation of electrical and electronic equipment take back at retailers from certain size, To introduce obligation of compliance schemes to support financially municipalities in relations with separate collection of waste electrical and electronic equipment, To introduce in the waste act an institute of compliance schemes and to set their rights and obligations based on principal equal conditions, To cancel quantitative targets for collection and to introduce qualitative targets (to take all collected waste electrical and electronic equipment and to cover whole territory of Slovakia), To cancel the obligation to pay fee to Recycling Fund for non-household electrical and electronic equipment, To decrease the involvement of state administration in the process of registration, collection and processing of information; to strengthen the position of commissioned organization in this area, Possibility to introduce clearing-house. 17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava

Thank you for your attention! Elena Bodíková Centre of Waste Management and Basel Convention Slovak Environmental Agency Hanulova 5/D SK - 844 40 Bratislava Tel.: 1421-2 – 60201611 E-mail: elena.bodikova@sazp.sk www.sazp.sk 17th BCRC Workshop Bratislava