European Electronics Recyclers Association

The European Electronics Recyclers Association (EERA) welcomes the opportunity to respond to the European Commissions consultation on the Circular Economy Act (CEA). Our responses draw on EERAs established policy positions on the Waste Shipment Regulation, Critical Raw Materials recovery, plastics recycling and end-of-waste criteria, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), and the recommendations set out in 'Towards…

The European Electronic Recyclers Association (EERA) supports the European Commission's initiative to modify the EU's public procurement rules. Public procurement is a key tool for achieving EU goals like environmental sustainability, re-use, the circular economy, innovation, and strategic autonomy.

EERA represents the interests of the European WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) recycling and reprocessing industry and supports measures that strengthen industrial competitiveness, resilience and decarbonisation across Europe.

Call for Evidence EU Taxonomy Review (Climate & Environmental Delegated Acts) EERA Response to the European Commission The European Electronic Recyclers Association (EERA), representing Europes leading professional Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) treatment, depollution and resource recovery operators, welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the European Commissions review of the Climate and…

The European Electronics Recyclers Association (EERA) notes that this initiative will create new jobs and industry growth and provide security for Europe. We recognise that action must be undertaken at the EU level to ensure the supply of key CRMs as it will be impossible to implement and negotiate at Member State level given the lack of harmonisation in regulations and single market initiatives.

EERA welcomes the European Commission approach of the transposition of the Batteries Directive into a Batteries Regulation. The fact that the Commission recognizes and addresses highly interlinked problems related to batteries is welcome to recyclers of waste electronic and electric equipment.

Initial Observations on the European Commissions Digital Product Passport (DPP) Proposal Joint Submission by EBRA and EERA December 2024 As representatives of the European waste management sector, for electronics and batteries, EBRA and EERA welcome the opportunity to provide initial observations regarding the European Commissions proposals for the Digital Product Passport (DPP).

The working group “Fast-Track Notifications” is an initiative coming from the North Sea Resources Roundabout, envisioned to accommodate several secondary resource streams or cases, working out practical and scalable solutions to the barriers encountered in the transboundary shipment of secondary resources. ‘Fast-Track Notifications’ was one of the cases of this International Green Deal NSRR.

EERA, the European Electronics recyclers Association endorses the paper the EC just published “Inception impact assessment” as introduction paper into the review of the Waste Shipment Regulation in the course of this year. We would like to emphasize that the EC addresses the right themes in this paper and that we believe that our project to simplify and harmonize notifications in Europe fits in well with this.

EERA Response to the European Commission Implementing the Do No Significant Harm (DNSH) Principle The European Electronics Recyclers Association (EERA) welcomes the European Commission's initiative to develop harmonised guidance on the application of the Do No Significant Harm (DNSH) principle under the 2028-2034 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF).

EERA welcomes the Commission initiative to list non-battery containing Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment and related recyclates as green listed for the purposes of the Waste Shipments Regulation, recognising the need to remove barriers to the free movement of WEEE for recycling within the internal market.

EERA welcome the opportunity to respond to the European Commissions consultation on the implementation of Article 26 of the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA), which provides for the establishment of a list of products, components and waste streams with high potential for the recovery of critical raw materials (CRMs).

EERA position November 2021: The policy objectives of the circular economy and the objectives of a non-toxic world can only be reached by finding an intelligent balance between the two justified interests and EERA hopes to be able to contribute to this debate with this text. .

Reaction “Inception Impact Assessment - Update of concentration limit values of persistent organic pollutants in waste” Although EERA is aware of the fact that the last Basel Convention COP decided in Paragraph 8 (containing the following: Encourages Parties and others to, as soon as possible, develop and use methods, including screening methods, that are validated and suitable for industrial-scale use for the…

Opening of the attached position paper · the full paper is on the Commission’s record (source link above)

EERA welcomes the overall objectives and aspirations of the proposed Regulation on Ecodesign for Sustainable Products (ESPR), as it has long been our viewpoint that the key to good recycling opportunities to recover secondary materials must begin at the design stage.

We support the Commission in the amendments proposed. EERA is a non-profit organisation and is the voice of WEEE recycling in Europe being the professional association for the re-use, recycling and re-processing industry. Our vision is for a resource efficient economy where WEEE is managed as a resource and is returned into the economy as a secondary raw material or as equipment prepared for re-use.