The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2006

Scheme obligations

4.  In regulation 20—

(a) in paragraph (1), for the words “any compliance period, or any part of a compliance period, make an application to the appropriate authority on or before 31st October in the year immediately preceding the commencement of that compliance period” substitute “the first compliance period, or any part of the first compliance period, make an application to the appropriate authority on or before 31st March 2007”;

(b) in paragraph (2), for the words “15th October in the year immediately preceding the commencement of the relevant compliance period” substitute “15th March 2007”;

(c) in paragraph (6), for the words commencing with “1st December of the year immediately preceding the commencement of that compliance period” substitute the following “1st June 2007”; and

(d) after paragraph (8) insert the following new paragraphs (8A), (8B) and (8C)—

“(8A) The appropriate authority shall notify in writing each operator of a scheme of a preliminary assessment of the market share of his scheme members in 2006 on or before 17th April 2007.

(8B) The market share referred to in paragraph (8A) shall be calculated as follows in relation to each of the categories of EEE using the information provided to the appropriate authority in compliance with paragraph 13A of Schedule 4––

where—

• “A” is the total amount in tonnes of EEE intended for use by private households and falling within one of the categories of EEE (“the relevant category”) that has been put on the market in the United Kingdom in 2006 by all of the members of a particular scheme; and

• “B” is the total amount in tonnes of EEE intended for use by private households and falling within the relevant category that has been put on the market in the United Kingdom in 2006.

(8C) A notification given under paragraph (8A) shall include the following information—

(a) the preliminary assessment of the market share in 2006 of the scheme members referred to in that paragraph by reference to the categories of EEE;

(b) an explanation of how the market share referred to in sub-paragraph (a) has been determined using the calculation set out in paragraph (8B).”.