What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text

Removed:– after consulting the Committee of the Regions,

Changed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new), Article 2 a (new): (-1) The following Article 2a is added: / Article“Article 2a / 1. No later than [31 December 2026], the Commission shall assess the need for a revision of this Directive and, where appropriate, present a legislative proposal in that respect, accompanied by a thorough socio-economic and environmental impact assessment. / 2. In the impact assessment, the Commission shall in particular assess the following: / (a) provisions which specifically ensure that the principle of legal certainty is adhered to and that there is no provision that could entail unjustified retroactive effect in any Member State; / (b) provisions to ensure the implementation of the waste hierarchy as laid down in Article 4 of Directive 2008/98/EC; / (c) provisions to ensure that citizens and consumers are not burdened with disproportionate costs, in line with the polluter pays principle; / (d) provisions ensuring full implementation and enforcement of this Directive, in particular with regard to adequate collection targets, as well as preventing illegal trade of WEEE; / (e) creating a new ‘photovoltaic panels’ category under this Directive with the aim to disassociate photovoltaic panels from the existing WEEE category 4, ‘large equipment’, as referred to in Annexes III and IV, and calculating the collection targets on the basis of waste photovoltaic panels available for collection based on their projected lifetime, rather than on the quantity of products placed on the market; / (f) establishing a mechanism to ensure…ensur…

Changed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new), Article 13 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2: (2a) in Article 13(1), the second subparagraph is replaced by the following: / "The”The financing of the costs from historical WEEE (‘historical waste’), resulting from EEE referred to in Article 2(1), point (a), other than photovoltaic panels, which is being replaced by new equivalent products or by new products fulfilling the same function, shall be provided for by producers of those products when supplying them. Member States may, as an alternative, provide that users other than private households also be made, partly or totally, responsible for this financing."financing”

Changed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new), Article 13 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3: (2 b) in Article 13(1), the third subparagraph is replaced by the following: / "For“For other historical waste resulting from EEE referred to in Article 2(1), point (a), other than photovoltaic panels, the financing of the costs shall be provided for by the users other than private households."households.”