What is the WEEE the Directive?
WEEE stands for Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment and is a piece of European Union legislation. All Member states (National Governments) are obligated to implement and transition the Directive into national legislation. 2: Is Keytools as a corporation required to comply with the WEEE Directive? A corporation is not legally required to comply with the requirements of the WEEE Directive itself, but we will be required to meet the requirements of the National legislation developed by the local Governments in each Member state. 3: When will the National laws be enforced? The member states will implement the WEEE directive with some variety in time and set-up. Most member states are in the process of developing the National legislation which was scheduled to be completed by August 2004. A number of countries have now completed their National Legislation, some have implemented it as of 13 th August, 2005 and some have communicated delayed implementations. At this time a number of
