The Laws Of The Eu Weee Directive

In recent several decades, the global electrical and electronic industry has developed greatly. With the faster pace of technical renovation, the cycle of the products has shortened and great many of electrical wastes accumulated while they come with the convenience. The burden of dealing with these wastes is heavier, and the world environment has been deteriorated gradually. So, EU hope to solve this problem through relative directives and ensure the way of sustainable development of the industry as well as manifest it's pioneer image of environmental conservation. On 13^th Feb., 2003, European Committee came out with tow directives: Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment ("WEEE" for short) and Restriction on Hazardous Substances ("RoHS" for short). The directives stipulated that the producers of the electrical and electronic equipment on the EU market should undertake the cost of reclaiming, disposing and recycling from Aug., 2005. From 1^st Jul., 2006, 6 kinds of hazardous substances should not be used in the electrical and electronic equipment which is imported into EU. Both of the directives will great affect our exporting electrical and electronic equipments. WEEE directive hasn't implemented for a long time so that many person are not clear about its enforcement situation, content, theory basis etc. The motive to write this thesis is to eliminate the information barrier which is brought with WEEE.The focus of this thesis is WEEE, I discuss and study the background, theory basis, the relationship between directive and trade barrier, inspire to our country of WEEE by historical analysis methodology, comparative analysis methodology and demonstration methodology. There are five parts, and the points are the followings:Part I analyzes three key words in details—electrical and electric equipment, producer, put on the market.Part II discusses the theory of the WEEE—extend producer responsibility(EPR for short), explores its connotation from three aspects, clarifies its advantage on theory, points out its affect to producer, product and environment. Part III bands WEEE and EPR together, indicates WEEE is the most important representation of EPR, clarifies who, when, where, how and why of WEEE, and points out that there may be some problems and conflicts existed in both WEEE and EPR.Part IV analyzes the international basis of WEEE in the frame of GATT/WTO, demonstrates its character, explores its validity and states the fallout of this directive.Part V discusses the revelation from the directive, analyzes the affect to our country from both sides of benefit and harm, and advances the measures from four aspects that is the idea, the legislation, the technical criterions and the international cooperation to answer to the directive.