WEEE PROPER TREATMENT

LITHUANIA‘S EXPERIENCE

Dalius KrinickasDirector of Waste Department, Ministry of Environment, Lithuania

Tallinn, October 1, 2015

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LT situation

• 1068 producers and importers

• Individually or collectively (organizations)

• 3 organizations acting (no individual actions)

• 104 collecting companies

• 25 recyclers / 10 exporters

• Organizations must have a license

• Guaranty should be provided to get a license

• Agreements with municipalities

• Agreements with waste treatment companies

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Goals and Targets

• Goal – 4 kg / per 1 person

• Quantitative targets for 2015 / 2016 – 45%

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Targets should be achieved according to the amount of electronics placed on the market for business purposes

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Some figures, 2013• Placed into the market – 27,5 thousand t

• Collected – 16,2 thousand t

• Treated – 15,9 thousand t

• Recovery / recycling rates – 77,2% / 70,4%

Recovery rate (%)

Product category 2011 2012 2013

Large household appliances 78,2 82,3 80,0

Small household appliances 75,9 78,2 73,0

IT & Telecommunication 74,6 75,0 73,5

Consumer equipment 76,9 79,6 78,1

Lighting equipment 70,0 70,9 72,0

Gas discharge lamps      

Electrical & electronic tools 78,4 76,8 73,0

Toys, leisure & sports equipment 74,7 79,1 73,6

Medical devices 78,4 81,8 72,5

Monitor & control instruments 82,2 83,1 78,8

Automatic dispensers 80,6 80,4 80,1

Total 75,8 78,9 77,2

Reuse & recycling rate (%)

Product category 2011 2012 2013

Large household appliances 73,5 73,5 75,0

Small household appliances 70,3 69,7 66,8

IT & Telecommunication 65,9 65,2 64,3

Consumer equipment 67,1 65,4 68,5

Lighting equipment 65,9 57,8 60,9

Gas discharge lamps 78,3 66,2 67,9

Electrical & electronic tools 73,3 70,9 63,8

Toys, leisure & sports equipment 58,6 54,2 51,5

Medical devices 71,7 69,3 62,6

Monitor & control instruments 79,0 71,1 74,4

Automatic dispensers 76,1 75,6 75,1

Total 71,7 70,4 70,4

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WEEE Treatment Requirements

Main pillars:•Placing on the market – first step of treatment•Labelling – obligatory to put into the market•Collection – separate, at least 1 place, not less then 200 t•Transportation – to the treatment sites•Treatment – storage, equipped places, installations•Information – to society, waste treatment companies•Traceability – to know where, when and how•Accounting – all the actions on waste treatment•Cooperation – public, private, enforcement•Information sharing – internal, external

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Responsibilities

Producers / importers:

•Registration in the state registry of producers and importers

•Organize proper treatment

•Financing

•Inform society and waste treatment companies

•Perform accounting

•Implement targets

•Reporting quarterly

Public institutions:

•Set goals and targets

•Coordination of institutions’ actions

•Control of producers and waste treatment companies

•Licenses to producers and importers

•Permits to waste treatment companies

•Accounting

•Monitoring

Partnership and shared responsibility (each institution recognizes its responsibility for the environmental protection objectives and acts according to available measures).

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Foreseen improvements

• Review of Licensing requirements of organizations (autumn–winter, 2015)

• Enhance Cooperation with producers, public institutions, enforcement institutions (working groups starting in October 2015)

• Analyze different codification, information (together with Customs, State Tax Inspectorate, 2015–2016)

• Prepare National waste shipment plan (project in the early 2016)

• Implement electronic accounting system (2018)

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Licensing

• Separate regulation of issue, correction, suspension, repeal of licenses, deadlines for infringements;

• Terms for answers, procedures, possibility to extent terms for consideration and removal of violations;

• Set the order of the imposition of fines (percentage from the annual turnover);

• Possibility to perform all procedures electronically.

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Cooperation

Working platforms:

•MoE, EPA, Organisations, Confederation of Industrialists, Association of Municipalities, Ministry of Economy, Confederation of Employers: issues to discuss – licensing, agreements with municipalities, reuse, recycling standards;

•MoE, EPA, REPD, Customs, State Tax Inspectorate, Police department: issues to discuss – codification, reporting/tax/placing into the market;

•Proposal for LV, EE to prepare technical guidelines on waste shipment (during Senior Officials Meeting in Lithuania)

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Waste shipment

• Implementation of Waste Shipment Regulation;

• First project in the early 2016;

• Participating institutions: MoE, EPA, State Environmental Protection Survey, Customs, Police Department, State Border Protection Survey, Ministry of Transport, State Road Transport Inspectorate, State Railway Inspectorate;

• The result: an effective control, physical check of cargo, cargo inspection from the starting to the last point, operative information sharing.

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Accounting

• Project consists of the following phases: 1) public procurement – 2015; 2) preparation and submission for EU funding – 2015; 3) development and installation (20 months);

• Main aspects: integration of permits, tax, State registry; filling and tracing data in real time; the ability to share and analyze data; an effective data control, convenient; availability 24 h; less mistakes;

• Expected launch: 2018 m. I quarter;

• The ability to involve producers and importers: testing of demo version.

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Thank you

Contacts: +370(706)63670, +370(673)78865, +370(706)63670, +370(673)78865,ee-mail-mail: dalius.krinickas@am.lt: dalius.krinickas@am.lt