EU-based manufacturers, importers and rebranders of electrical and electronic equipment or batteries, as well as online shops selling these products to the European Union fall under the mandatory obligations of the WEEE and Battery Directive.
PV CYCLE is a member-based non-profit organization offering collective and tailor-made waste management and legal compliance solutions under the WEEE and Battery Directives. We enable the responsible parties to comply with their mandatory obligations – in an easy and cost-effective way.
Under the WEEE regulations, a ‘Producer’ and thus the legal responsible is defined as:
Any natural or legal person established in a country of the European Union and manufacturing and selling under his own name or trademark within the territory of this Member State
Any natural or legal person established in a country of the European Union and reselling products produced by other suppliers (except where the brand of the original producer appears on the product) within the territory of this Member State under his own name or trademark.
Any natural or legal person established in a country of the European Union and placing products from a third country or from another Member State on the market of this Member State
Companies established in another EU-27 Member State or in a third country and selling products online directly to end customers in a EU-27.
They must appoint an Authorized Representative, which then represents the foreign based legal entity in that country of the EU-27.
When you are not sure if you, your customer or your supplier fall under the WEEE or Battery or Packaging waste legislation, or when you have a distribution channel that does not match with any of the above, then contact our team by clicking here.
Not complying with your legal obligations can result in fines or prohibition of sales.