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Article: Producer Responsibility - Final consultation on implementation of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive in the UK.
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- August 10, 2006
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Despite the long passed deadline of full implementation in the UK by 13 August 2005, the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) at the end of July 2006 released what is hoped will be the final consultation on Regulations to transpose the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive into national legislation.
The consultation papers published on 25 July 2006 come with the aspiration that the implementing regulations will be transposed into UK law in December 2006 and the collection and take back regime will finally come into force in July 2007, some two years late. The UK is one of the last remaining member states of the enlarged group of 25 ...