1. 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
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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
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3. Duration of the Project
December 2005 – October 2006
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4. 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.
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5. 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.
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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 (
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7. Working Group of the Project
Biggest collective systems (Envidom, SEWA, Ekolamp)
MoE
Recycling Fund
Bratislava´s municipality
SEA
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8. 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.
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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
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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
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11. 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
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12. Collection of WEEE in 2005 in tons
Category
Put on the market
Collected
% collection
% collection (legislation) 1
24619
,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

13. 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 -

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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
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15. 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.
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Register of Producers
Producer of EEE
MoE SR
SEA CWMBC
Public
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Producers Reports
Producer of EEE
MoE SR
SEA CWMBC
Data customer
Producer of EEE
MoE SR
SEA CWMBC
Data customer
Collective System
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18. 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.
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19. Thank you for your attention!
Elena Bodíková
Centre of Waste Management and Basel Convention
Slovak Environmental Agency
Hanulova 5/D
SK Bratislava
Tel.: –
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