Obligations for electrical equipment manufacturers

 

Equipment for private households:

  • Compliance with the banned substances act §4 EAG VO.

  • Labelling of goods for the consumer market from 13th August 2005.

  • Registration as a manufacturer with the Environment Agency Austria -Umweltbundesamt GmbH (UBA)

  • Quarterly reporting of the quantity of goods in the consumer market

  • Financial indemnity for all new equipment put on the market

  • Access to around 100 waste collection points (1 per political district)

  • Collection and recycling (treatment/re-use/compliance with recycling targets)

  • Fulfilment of pick-up requests from the coordination centres.

  • Reporting of returns data.

  • Keeping consumers informed.

  • Return of waste electrical equipment to collection points (the manufacturer as well as the municipality).

    Alternative: sorting out individual returns, registering as the responsible party and finalising sorting contracts with every collection point in Austria.

 

Equipment for commercial purposes:

  • Compliance with the banned substances act §4 EAG VO.

  • Labelling of equipment put on the market from 13th August 2005.

  • Registration as a manufacturer with the Environment Agency Austria - Umweltbundesamt GmbH (UBA).

  • Quarterly reporting of the amount of electrical and electronic equipment on the market.

  • Returns of old waste equipment when new equipment is purchased and, in particular, equipment put on the market by you since 13th August 2005 (can be made non-mandatory by individual arrangements).

  • Treatment, recycling and reporting of returned waste electrical equipment.

  • Information on new types of electrical and electronic equipment for treatment system operators (disassembly instructions).

Old waste electrical equipment (put on the market before 12th August 2005)

  • Participation in a system is obligatory for the aforementioned equipment for private households according to the EAG-VO regulations.

  • Participation in a system is also possible for the aforementioned commercial equipment.

 

Non-transferable obligations

  • Compliance with the banned substances act §4 EAG-VO.

  • Labelling of equipment put on the market after 13th August 2005.

  • Information on new types of electrical and electronic equipment for the treatment system operators (disassembly instructions).

  • For exports to consumers/mail-oder retailers within the EU: compliance with the legal position in the Member States and registration with the appropriate government departments (by 10th April of the following year).

  • 1:1 return of an equivalent (type/function) piece of equipment at the place of delivery.

  • Obeying the law that treatment fees must not be shown separately.