The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2006

Regulation 55

SCHEDULE 9 Criteria for approval as a designated collection facility

1.  The facility is likely to subsist for at least one compliance period.

2.  That—

(a) the operator of the collection facility agrees to comply with the code of practice; and

(b) the collection facility has the capacity and arrangements in place to collect WEEE in compliance with the code of practice.

3.  The operator of the collection facility is willing to work with one or more operator of a scheme to secure the collection and removal of WEEE from a private household that is deposited at the facility during each compliance period.

4.  The operator of the collection facility holds a relevant authorisation.

5.—(1) Where an operator of a collection facility—

(a) finances the costs of collecting and delivering WEEE from private households to—

(i) an AATF for treatment; or

(ii) an approved exporter for treatment outside the United Kingdom,

during a compliance period; and

(b) possesses an evidence note issued in relation to the activities mentioned in sub-paragraph (a),

he agrees to provide to the appropriate authority information on the total amount of WEEE from private households that he has been responsible for collecting from a designated collection facility and delivering to an AATF for treatment or an approved exporter for treatment outside the United Kingdom during a compliance period.

6.  The information referred to in paragraph 5 shall—

(a) be in writing;

(b) specify the amount in tonnes of WEEE from private households by reference to each of the following categories—

(i) each of the categories listed in Schedule 1 (excluding display equipment, cooling appliances containing refrigerants and gas discharge lamps),

(ii) display equipment,

(iii) cooling appliances containing refrigerants, and

(iv) gas discharge lamps; and

(c) be provided for each quarter period of a relevant compliance period on or before the last day of the month that immediately follows the end of that quarter period.