WEEE stands for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment. Recycling instructions for scrapped electrical and electronic equipment.
In order to properly dispose of these huge amounts of electrical and electronic waste and to recover precious resources, the EU passed two directives in 2002 that have a significant impact on electrical and electronic equipment products, namely the WEEE (European Union Recycling Directive) and RoHS Directive (EU Environmental directives).
In 2016, the German environmental protection agency issued a law against e-commerce, requiring Amazon to notify overseas e-commerce registered electronic devices sold on its platform for recycling, and Amazon must order merchants to stop selling before obtaining WEEE electronic device recycling codes.
Which products need WEEE certification?
Taking the German station as an example, WEEE registration is mainly for a category of products. According to official information, the WEEE Directive applies to 10 types of electrical and electronic products: large household appliances, small household appliances, IT and communications equipment, consumer electronics and electrical equipment, lighting equipment, electrical and electronic tools (except large fixed industrial tools), toys, Leisure and sports equipment, medical equipment, testing and control instruments, vending machines.
Must WEEE do it?
Currently, Amazon enforces a policy on companies selling cross-border e-commerce. Without a WEEE registration code, products will be forcibly removed. Of all European countries, Germany has the strictest environmental protection requirements, so German WEEE must do it.
What are the consequences of not registering for WEEE?
WEEE is not registered, and it was blocked and listed by Amazon. In other words, when the merchant is selling well, the competitor will pay attention to it, and the competitor buys the merchant's product. If the product is not marked with a slashed trash can, or the product is not registered for recycling in Germany, the competitor will Entrusted a German lawyer to send a letter to Amazon asking to stop listing the company's products and apply for court procedures to destroy all the company's products on Amazon.
At this time, the merchant not only lost all the inventory, but also needed to pay the cost of the lawyer's letter and the cost of destroying the product, which may mean that the company was basically driven out of the German market and the losses were serious.
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