The obligations stress the need of prevention in producing electrical equipment, including the prescribed labelling. There is the obligation to finance the above-mentioned activities and to keep records of the electrical equipment placed on the market and of that taken back and that collected separately.
All producers operating on the Czech market are obliged to contribute to the scheme to meet the associated costs for the household EEE placed on the market before 13 August 2005 (so called historical waste) with the sum determined according to their market shares to the date of incurring of the costs
Selling new products, the producers can show these costs separately for 8 or 10 years, as the case may be, so that it is evident that the given portion of the purchase price will be used to the above-mentioned purpose.
Summary of obligations
(possibilities of fulfilment of obligations are stated in section 37h, paragraph 1)
- to finance collection from collecting equipment, processing, use and removal of electronic waste
- in cases of fulfilment which is not in a collective manner for “future waste” (EEE introduced onto the market after 13 August 2005), to provide a financial warranty upon introducing electronic equipment onto the market, in order to prevent costs in connection with the management of electronic waste from abandoned products from being borne by the company or other producers
- to contribute to the financing of management of electronic equipment sold before 13 August 2005 into a collective system, into which all producers operating on the market at the moment at which costs ensue contribute proportionally
- to provide information about identification of components and materials in order to simplify electronic waste management and to indicate electronic equipment in an appropriate manner
- to establish and operate individual or collective systems of return of electronic equipment from households
- in the case of electronic equipment other than those not from households to ensure the collection of electronic wastes produced thereby
- to establish systems in accordance with the legal prescriptions which ensure the processing of electronic wastes, using the best available techniques of processing, use and recycling
- to establish systems in accordance with the legal regulations, on an individual or collective basis, which ensure the use of separately collected electronic wastes
- in the case of electronic equipment introduced onto the market after 13 August 2005 to be responsible for financing electronic wastes from own electronic equipment
- to ensure the financing of costs for the collection, processing, use and environmentally friendly removal of electronic wastes from users other than households, from products introduced onto the market after 13 August 2005, at the latest from this date
- in the case of electronic wastes (from users other than households) from electronic equipment introduced onto the market before 13 August 2005 (“historical waste”) to ensure the financing of waste management if the user purchases electronic equipment of the same type or function
- to provide information on repeated use and processing for each new type of electronic equipment introduced onto the market within a year of the introduction thereof onto the market
- to identify own electronic equipment introduced onto the market after 13 August 2005 with an own brand name and also with an indication stating that it was introduced onto the market after 13 August 2005
