WEEE: Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment

What is it?

The WEEE Directive came into force in January 2007 and aims to both reduce the amount of WEEE being produced and encourage everyone to reuse, recycle and recover it. The Directive also aims to improve the environmental performance of businesses that manufacture, supply, use, recycle and recover electrical and electronic equipment.

If you are an importer, rebrander or manufacturer of new electrical or electronic equipment then it's likely that you will need to comply with the UK's WEEE Regulations, which in part implement the WEEE Directive. If you do need to comply, then you must register on a producer compliance scheme.

You may also have obligations under the WEEE Regulations if you are a business with electrical/electronic equipment to dispose of, or if you sell electrical or electronic equipment.

Our role is to provide information and advice on complying with the WEEE Regulations to producers of Electrical or Electronic Equipment (EEE) and the waste management industry. However, if you don't fall into one of these two categories you can find more information on WEEE below.

Find out more about your WEEE responsibilities

• Householders

Find out how the WEEE Regulations affect households.

• Importers, rebranders and manufacturers

If you are a producer of electrical or electronic equipment (EEE), you are likely to have responsibilities under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations.

• Operators of producer compliance schemes

Find out how producer compliance schemes work and how they can help you navigate through the WEEE Regulations

• Waste management industry

The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) legislation affects businesses in the waste management industry that want to set up WEEE treatment facilities

• Retailers

What retailers who sell electrical and electronic equipment need to know about the WEEE Regulations

• Business users

Find out about the new responsibilities on businesses that produce waste under the WEEE Regulations

• Local authorities

Find out how the WEEE Regulations affect local authorities

Read the WEEE Regulations in full

• Factsheet on the 2009 amendments to the WEEE Regulations (PDF, 101KB)
• Read the original WEEE Regulations, 2006 (PDF, 281KB)
• Read the amendment to the WEEE Regulations, 2007

Further information

• Small and medium businesses, see NetRegs for WEEE guidance
• Our role in enforcing the WEEE regulations
  
  
• Agencies and Industry WEEE Operational Liaison Group (AIWOLG)

Find out more about the Agencies and Industry WEEE Operational Liaison Group (AIWOLG)

• Frequently asked questions about WEEE

Find out how the WEEE Regulations affect you

• Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment public registers

Are you a producer of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)? Have you joined a producer compliance scheme?

• Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment UK data reports

Reports on the amount of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) collected in the UK and the amount of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) placed on the UK market.

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