Introducing Northern Compliance Ltd.
WEEE Regulations
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive was incorporated into UK Law as the WEEE Regulations in Jan 2007. The WEEE Regulations place responsibilities on Producers (Manufacturers, Importers or Re-branders) of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) which is placed on the UK market. These producers are now required by law, to register with a Producer Compliance Scheme (PCS).
Introducing Northern Compliance Ltd.
Northern Compliance is a non-profit B2B Producer Compliance Scheme (PCS) for producers of electrical electronic equipment (EEE) who are either manufacturers of EEE, importers of EEE or re-branders of EEE. Northern Compliance fulfil its members WEEE obligations via the appropriate UK environment agency ensuring that they are legally registered with a producer compliance scheme in accordance with the UK WEEE legislation.
Northern Compliance was formed on 25th October 2006 as a Limited Company by Guarantee. Its primary function is to operate as a Not for Profit organisation providing environmentally sustainable, socially responsible and cost effective WEEE Compliance solutions for its producer members.
UK WEEE Regulations (SI 2006 No. 3289) pdf (406Kb)
5 Minute WEEE Challenge – 24th, March 2009
Take the WEEE Challenge - Megaman did!
Megaman (UK) Ltd is one of the UK’s leading producers of energy saving lighting products. In 2008 Weeeco undertook an internal audit of their producer compliance and established that in the rush to compliance in 2007 they had misinterpreted and misunderstood the options for compliance available to them.
Weeeco identified that Megaman would make significant savings by simply
- Producing a sound Methodology for identifying the amounts of products going to B2C or B2B
- Stopping the erroneous recording B2C Category 5 in their EA returns
- Stopping the erroneous recording OEM sales in their EA Returns
- Operate a policy of B2B sales under regulation 9.2
- Pay a levy against their Market Share Obligation rather than per item placed
The recommendations were implemented and Megaman and Weeeco set up a joint venture called WEEE Lite to challenge the current offer that exists in the B2C market for businesses who do not understand their options. In 2009 Megaman will benefit from an 80% reduction in there compliance costs.
The issues to note here are
- The producer compliance schemes are not compelled to give best advice
- The producer is responsible for understanding regulations and sourcing their producer compliance scheme
- The producer is responsible for deciding what Category and Obligation it records in EA returns
Weeeco believe many producers are not aware of the options they have to comply and assume that producer compliance schemes will give best advice.
“We are passionate in the belief that Market Share Obligation payments should be wholly transparent when contracting B2C Compliance and Challenge you to take the 5 minute WEEE producers challenge”
All you need to do is click on the 'WEEE Producers Challenge' button on the left hand side of the home page.
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