Welcome to the 75th EERA meeting

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Agenda

13:15 Welcome to the 75th EERA meeting

13:20 Approval agenda/minutes of last meeting, Salzburg, 17-01-2017

13:25 Disclosure of results elections EERA board membership 2017

13:45 Progress on study the economics analysis of the WEEE business model UNU, Dr. Ir. Jaco Huisman

14:15 Prof Dr. Michael Oehler, CEO, SecureCalc Systems, EUWID project European PS/ABS – Index

14:45 WEEE compliance promotion exercise- screening methodology EU member states, BIPRO

Agenda

15:00 Fair competition- what should we convey to authorities and take back systems and how?

15:15 Coffee break

15:30 Cenelec update

- Discussion on drafting TR report & request to national committees

- Update Cenelec working groups

- Dissemination Brochure European standards for WEEE

16:00 REEcoveRing project: recovery of rare earth elements form magnetic waste in WEEE and incinerator ashes

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Agenda16:15 Ecodesign for EEE

-Summary of webconference for EERA members, March 2017

-Draft EERA position on working document on potential Ecodesign requirements for servers & data storage products (January 2017)

16:30 Updates from countries

16:45 Miscellaneous

- Deca BDE Stockholm and Basel convention- SWIG meeting (February2017), COP meeting Geneva (April 27-29)

- JRC Bref review team – final meeting in Seville (March 19-23)

- Art 15 WEEE Directive- joint request (EURIC) to EEE manufacturers for progress (August 2016, January 2017)

17:00 Closing

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Disclosure Board members elections

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Inserted topic: Relationship EURIC

BIR urges the EU Council of Ministers to correct its “impossible law” requiring equivalent conditions for EU waste exports for repair and recycling both inside and outside the EU Laws are being amended to support the EU Circular Economy, among which in the current draft of the Framework Directive on Waste there

is a requirement for EU-based exporters of waste for preparation for reuse or recycling to prove “that the treatment of waste outside the Union took place in conditions that are equivalent to the requirements of the relevant Union environmental legislation”.

BIR Trade & Environment Director Ross Bartley has alerted the Council of Ministers to this “impossible law” and proposed an equitable correction, qualifying “equivalent” as “broadly equivalent”. It is easy to understand, he argues, that countries outside the European Union have their own laws which simply cannot be proven by an EU waste exporter to be equivalent to the European Union’s environmental laws. Even across the EU, repair and recycling facilities cannot be proven to operate under equivalent conditions, and variations are found between such facilities in the various OECD member countries. Furthermore, repair and recycling facility conditions vary in countries across the rest of the world.

Most European recyclers, and in particular the major European consumers of wastes and scrap, recognise the “equivalent conditions” requirement as an intentional barrier to trade. EU Member States that generate more waste than their national facilities can repair or recycle should seriously consider whether this trade barrier would prevent them achieving obligatory targets.

BIR’s advice is that trade in waste and scrap should be free and fair and that, in the absence of guidelines on what are “broadly equivalent” conditions for repair and recycling, the EU Member State Competent Authorities of the country of export should be allowed to assess the information provided to them.

BIR has actively supported the view that all wastes should be environmentally soundly managed in all countries (note that the United Nations Environment Programme’s Basel Convention published its Framework on Environmentally Sound Management in 2013 and that the OECD published its Recommendation of the Council on the Environmentally Sound Management of Waste in 2004).

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WEEE Recycling Economics

Progress UNU – EERA ResearchThe shortcomings of the current business model

Presentation by

Dr. Ir. Jaco Huisman

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European PS/ABS -Index

Prof. Dr. Michael Oehler, CEO SecureCalc systems

EUWID project European PS/ABS - Index

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WEEE compliance promotion exercisescreening methodology

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First countries: Bulgaria (30.03.17), France (03.04.17), Lithuania (04.05.17), Ireland (11.05.17)

Overview of the project phases :

Develop a set of criteria in order to screen the national WEEE management practice of all EU-28 Member States

Screen the national WEEE management practices of all EU-28 Member States against the criteria, and select eight Member States to be targeted for expert seminars in the countries

Elaborate a factsheet including information on WEEE management for each EU-28 Member State

Prepare and organise eight seminars for Member State officials and stakeholders; prepare fiches on policy findings, good practice examples and proposals for improvement

Prepare a final workshop in Brussels to present the good practices and the problems identified in the management of WEEE and to discuss on the suggested proposals for further promotion of the compliance of Member States with the requirements of the WEEE Directive (planned for October 2017)

Please participate in your country & inform EERA secretariat and BIPRO: Mr. Maximillian Kling directly (maximilian.kling@bipro.de | http://www.bipro.de).

Fair competition

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What should we convey to authorities & TBS and how?Incites to action plan based on strategy – level playing field

Coffee break (15 minutes)

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Update Cenelec March 2017

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Cenelec update

NWIP Technical Report (TR 50625-6)

3rd time around

Voting closed on 30 March

Problematic discussions between Euric and other stakeholders Euric position -> approach list everything what goes beyond the WEEE

Directive Position others -> only a relation matrix between the WEEE Directive and the

where it can be found in the standards

If there is a positive vote from the NC’s -> Let’s hope for the best.

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Cenelec: Energy-related products Material efficiency aspects for eco-design

Standardisation request of the European Commission M/543 to the European standardisation organisations as regards eco-design requirements on material efficiency aspects for energy-related products in support of the implementation of Directive 2009/125/EC

Cenelec JWG 10

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EC meeting of expert group on 13 February

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For the agenda: click here:link to EC expert group meetings WEEEMinutes not yet available

Collection, Transport, Re-use and Treatment

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Standards for WEEE

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Collection and Transport of WEEE

Treatment of WEEE

Re-use of WEEE30-03-2017

Cenelec standards cover the whole chain of Collection | Transport | Re-use | Treatment

Standards for WEEE

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* Not in mandate

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Assurances

Subject WEEE Directive articles and annexes

Covered in standards*

Disposal and transport of collected WEEE for proper treatment and preparing for re-use

6.1 and 6.2 Proper treatment 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3 Permits 9.1 and 9.3 Shipments of WEEE 10.2 Recovery targets for treatment and preparing for re-use

11.1, 11.2, 11.4 Registration, information and reporting 16.4 Inspection and monitoring 23.1 Categories of EEE covered Annex I Indicative list of EEE which falls within categories Annex II Categories covered by the Directive Annex III Minimum recovery targets Annex V Minimum requirements for shipments Annex VI Selective treatment for materials and components of WEEE

Annex VII Technical requirements Annex VIII

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Cenelec brochure

Request to EERA members

for lobby & dissemination

of the brochure in MS

Printable pdf: click read more& scroll down

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REEcoveRing project

REEcoveRing - Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from magnetic waste in WEEE

The challenge ahead hence lies in making the recycling chain economically viable, even at low REE market prices. The opportunities lie in more systematic sorting/shipping of magnet-containing EoL goods, simplifying recovery processes, upscaling and cutting costs; moreover methods for more extensive co-extraction of elements to carry the costs of processing should be developed.

REEcoveRing is a crucial next step towards industrial implementation of economically feasible methods to close the loop for NdFeB magnet materials in WEEE

Professor Gabriella Tranell (gabriella.tranell@ntnu.no)

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REEcoveRing project

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Partner Short name Country Main Role in the project Organization type

1 NTNU NorwayLead WP8, Participant WP4, 6

University (Coordinator)

2 TU Delft Netherlands Participant WP1, 3, 4 University

3 Chemconserve BV Netherlands Commercial lead WP1, 5 SME

4 Indumetal Recycling, S.A. SpainCo-commercial lead WP2 Participant WP1

SME

5 LCM UK Commercial lead WP4 SME

6 Elemetal Netherlands Commercial lead WP3 Industry

7Fundacion Tecnalia Reaserch & Innovation

Spain Participant WP2, 3, 6 Reaserch Institute

8 Coolrec BV NetherlandsCo-commercial lead WP2, Participant WP1

SME

9 BNW-Energy Norway Lead WP6 SME

10 BCC NetherlandsLead WP7Participant WP5

SME

11 Fairphone Netherlands Participant WP1, WP2, WP7 SME

12 Eco-systèmes France Participant WP1 and WP7 Non-profit org.

13 WeCycle Netherlands Partcipant WP1 and WP7 Non-profit org.

EcodesignImplementation of the Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Directives

First working document on potential ecodesign requirements on servers and data storage products

Conference call for EERA members was organised to discuss the draft position paper, on March 8

Many of product groups will follow

Position paper for servers & data storage products is finalized

EU Ecolabel promotes the production and consumption of products with a reducedenvironmental impact along the life cycle and is awarded only to the best (environmentally) performing products in the market

Green public procurement provides criteria for the use by the public authorities seeking toprocure environmentally friendly goods and services.

Send an e- mail in case you want to stay informed: JRC-B5-IMAGING-EQUIPMENT@ec.europa.eu

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Update from countries

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Update JRC WT Bref review teamDecember 2016

Last steps:

• Release of the proposed revised draft BAT conclusions together with the Background Paper (BP): January 2017

• Final TWG meeting in Seville, EERA was represented by José Suarez, Recilec

• After the final TWG meeting, a pre-final draft of the entire BREF will be released, together with the EIPPCB assessment of the 3413 comments received on D1

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(Upcoming) Events Invitation Ecosystèmes, March 21 presentation NZ: “Circular Economy pushing innovative

WEEE recycling and business models” click here for link to the presentation

WEEE Forum, Malta on 26-27 April to celebrate 15 years of excellence in e-waste recycling

European Conference for plastic recycling industry (30 &31 March)

Metal Bulletin Events’ 6th Copper Recycling Conference 14th – 16th June 2017 Sofia, Bulgaria

17th International Electronics Recycling Congress IERC 2018 January 16 – 19, 2018, Salzburg, Austria

Going Green – CARE INNOVATION 2018 – Towards a Circular Economy conference that will take place in Vienna (Austria) from November 26-29, 2018.

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Proposal for EERA meetings 2017

Meeting: Date: Location:

GA & 75th EERA meeting 30-03-2017 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Plant visit Stena & 76th EERA meeting 07-06-2017 & 08-06 -2017 Halmstad, Sweden

Plant visit Bianatt Greece &77th EERA meeting

27-09-2017 & 28-09-2017 Athene, Greece

78th EERA meeting 30-11-2017 Düsseldorf, Germany

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Closing

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