Act on Electrical and Electronic Waste
Dear business partners,
We hereby would like to acquaint you with the application of Act 185/2001 Coll., on Waste and Act No. 7/2005 Coll., which are based on European legislation on waste 2002/96/ES, known under the utilized name of “Act on Electrical and Electronic Waste”, on the basis of which the importers of goods take part in the financing of the disposal of electrical and electronic waste starting on 13/8/2005.
Diskus, spol. s r.o. (Ltd.) is a member of the REMA collection system (
www.remasystem.cz), via which it shall take part in the financing of the collection and disposal of IT products and consumer AV electronic equipment.
In accordance with the Act, the financing of the disposal of “electrical and electronic waste” shall take place within the scope of the common REMA system (together with other distributors and manufacturers), and this shall be in the form of the invoicing of a recycling fee, which is extra and part of the price for every type of product. This fee is further invoiced to you – by the seller (dealer), which means you as a reseller do not incur any additional costs. Only if you are the consumer (user) of the product, this fee becomes part of the increased price of the product for you.
The amount of “fees” for individual types of products is available at www.remasystem.cz , where there is also information on collection locations.
Upon agreement with all the other manufacturers and distributors, the fee for the disposal of electrical and electronic waste shall be applied starting on 1/9/2005.
In order to maintain the transparency of the application of the Act in the entire IT sales channel, and particularly with regard to your statistical, accounting and warehousing record-keeping obligations that arise from the application of the Act on Waste (if you are not part of the same REMA system), we hereby recommend that your company, if it is a manufacturer or importer of any kind of electrical or electronic equipment in the meaning of the abovementioned Act, should be registered in the same REMA collection system and thus avoid complicated “double” record-keeping.
Furthermore, it is necessary to call your attention to important provisions of the Act, stating that if your supplier is not able to prove that it is fulfilling its obligations arising from the Act, you and the end seller are responsible for taking over the liability for the given manufacturer (distributor) pursuant to Section 37j (4). “If the entity that within the scope of its entrepreneurial activities sells electrical or electronic equipment that does not come from manufacturers registered in the List pursuant to Section 37i, then the manufacturer (distributor) is liable for fulfilling its obligations stipulated by the Act.”
You can find the full wording of the Act and regulations concerning this issue here.