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What changed between the adopted text of 9 Nov 2023 and the adopted text of 6 Feb 2024
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Removed:Recital 9 a (new): (9a) In order to maintain the principle of legal certainty in the future revisions of Directive 2012/19/EU, it is important to pay particular attention to preventing the adoption of any provisions that could potentially have unjustified retroactive effects. It is necessary to give clarity and predictability to EEE producers with regard to the operating conditions that were in effect when their products were placed on the market. That approach helps to avoid the risk of incurring unpredictable costs associated with future WEEE management. Furthermore, such revisions should respect the waste hierarchy as laid down in Article 4 of Directive 2008/98/EC.
Removed:Recital 10 a (new): (10a) Unsound treatment of waste photovoltaic panels and open scope WEEE leads to significant adverse impacts on health and the environment. The proper treatment of photovoltaic panels and maximising the recovery of waste from photovoltaic panels at the end of their lifetime should therefore be ensured. Without prejudice to the changes to the financial obligations necessary to cover collection and treatment of waste photovoltaic panels placed on the market before 13 August 2012 and of waste from all open scope EEE placed on the market before 15 August 2018 introduced by this Directive, Member States should ensure the environmentally sound management of related WEEE. Member States may encourage producers, through their individual or collective extended producers responsibility schemes to properly collect and treat the related historical WEEE of photovoltaic panels and open scope EEE.
Removed:Recital 10 b (new): (10b) When revising Directive 2012/19/EU, and addressing its shortcomings, it is crucial to ensure that the costs of managing WEEE are not disproportionately transferred to consumers or citizens. This includes taking into consideration the ‘polluter pays’ principle, addressing potential provisions pertaining to WEEE collection targets and adherence to the waste hierarchy as laid down in Article 4 of Directive 2008/98/EC.
Removed:Directive 2012/19/EU
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Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new), Article 2 a (new): (-1) The following Article 2a is added: / “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 ensur…
Added:– after consulting the Committee of the Regions,
Removed:Directive 2012/19/EU
Removed: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 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”
Removed:Directive 2012/19/EU
Removed: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 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.”
Removed:Article 2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1: Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by [18 months after the entry into force] at the latest. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions.
Added:P9_TC1-COD(2023)0025
Added:Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 6 February 2024 with a view to the adoption of Directive (EU) 2024/… of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2012/19/EU on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)
Added:(As an agreement was reached between Parliament and Council, Parliament's position corresponds to the final legislative act, Directive (EU) 2024/884).