EU government can’t make national laws (legislation) for individual EU countries. It can however make it an absolute requirement that national governments create their own legislation in respect of directives it creates. It can impose penalties on EU countries who don’t comply or fail to comply with deadlines on implementing such national legislation.
Thus if national governments fail to meet the Aug 05 deadline on implementing national legislation in respect of the WEEE directive they will be liable to a fine, penalty, slap on the wrist. For “latest” info on other countries, look at the Perchards report Jan 05 on the DTi sustainability/weee web site. Unbelievably the EU can’t get their act together to produce a web page which keeps track of where each member is in respect of implementing directives – or if they have no-one can find it :) Regards, Chris _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stone, Richard Sent: 04 April 2005 13:36 To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: WEEE in Germany hello all, I am now thouroughly confused on dates and countries required participation of the WEEE, which was suppose to start now... If the EU Govenrment has a directive and a date, isnt it required of ALL EU members to follow these dates and NOT go out on there own and change dates and anything else? by the way, is there anything specific on the Netherlands and the WEEE...I'd like to know more on that country. we will plan on applying the WEEE wheely bin label in August, but I'd like to know exactly whats going on if possible. thank you. Richard, From: [email protected] mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 3:37 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: WEEE in Germany Don, others, Thanks for the link. As I understand it, the Basic Law at the Federal level has been passed in Germany but the various Länder (local states) still have to pass their enabling legislation. Can someone from Germany confirm this please? If true, does it mean that the law could apply in some Länder before others, or is there a synchronising mechanism? >From the information I have, the WEEE Directive seems to be the biggest problem in the biggest countries (UK, Italy, France and Germany). Smaller countries, be they older members (e.g.Belgium and the Netherlands) or recent accession countries (e.g. Hungary and Slovakia) seem to have their legislative act together. I'm not sure about medium sized countries, such as Spain and Poland. Perhaps others could confirm or correct? {To clarify, by small, medium and large I do not mean geographic area, but rather weighted voting rights within the EU legal system (and correspondingly within the ESOs - European Standards Organisations).} Richard Hughes ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc _____ This message (including any attachments) may contain confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose. If you are not the intended recipient, delete this message. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosing, copying, distributing, or taking any action based on this message is strictly prohibited. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
