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title: How do businesses manage WEEE-related compliance obligations?
description: In EU, companies selling electrical and/or electronic products and devices must consider two to three end-of-life (waste) regulations when they sell goods.
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# [How do businesses manage WEEE-related compliance obligations?](https://news.weeelogic.com/business-weee-compliance-obligations)

 Written by [admin](https://news.weeelogic.com/author/admin) | Apr 25, 2017 6:20:00 AM

## **WEEE comply with what? PART 2**

**In Europe, companies selling electrical and/or electronic products and devices must take into consideration two to three end-of-life (waste) regulations when they sell goods:**

- **The [battery directive](http://www.weeelogic.com/battery-compliance-free-country-profile/)**
- **The [packaging directive](http://www.weeelogic.com/services/compliance/)**
- **The [WEEE directive](http://www.weeelogic.com/free-country-profile/)**

Each directive sets up a dedicated waste stream ([WEEE](https://news.weeelogic.com/all-about-weee-compliance), battery and packaging) with specific responsibilities in terms of:

- Legally constituted entities
- Registration obligations
- Sales and declarations obligations
- Obligations with regard to quantities and recycling
- Financing of system or operations
- Reporting obligations

 

 

 

## **How to identify if you have obligations?**

**Goods that fall into the scope of the WEEE directive (see article entitled “[What is WEEE](https://news.weeelogic.com/what-is-weee)?”) might also contain batteries and are usually packaged.**

In order to comply with legal requirements, a company placing appliances and related batteries and packaging on one or several EU markets (for the first time) [must ensure compliance](https://news.weeelogic.com/7-obligations-producers-comply-weee-directive) in each country where these obligations are mandatory.

**To fulfil and manage obligations, companies need to identify:**

- Whether the legal requirements apply to their activities
- Their precise obligations
- Different ways to comply, i.e. individually or via a compliance/take back systems
- Potential service providers: (PRO) Producer Responsibility Organization (i.e, Producer Compliance Schemes, Take back schemes)

 

This is usually realized via a legal assessment of supply chain, distribution network and stakeholders, invoicing mechanism.

**Therefore, in each country, companies with producer responsibility are required to:**

- Register with the appropriate authorities
- Declare quantities and weights placed on the market (future WEEE appliances, batteries, packaging)
- Manage information and communication to end-users (marking)
- Organize takeback and recycling of old appliances, batteries and packaging waste
- Finance take back and recycling
- Report figures for takeback and recycling to the authorities.

 

**However, for a single product, it may so happen that the party with [producer responsibility](https://news.weeelogic.com/7-obligations-producers-comply-weee-directive) for the WEEE and the batteries is a different one to that responsible for the packaging. This usually depends on the different entities involved with invoicing, shipping and bearing responsibility for the shipment.**

 

Romain Letenneur

 

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