Reporting of quantities

In connection with the annual reporting in the DPA-System register producers and importers must report quantities in kilos of electrical equipment put on the market, taken back, and treated during the previous calendar year.

Quantities put on the market

For the categories under which the producer or the importer has previously registered he must report how much equipment has been put on the market in the previous calendar year. Quantities put on the market must be distributed on type of user (‘private user’ and ‘professional user’) and category.

Quantities subject to transfer of responsibility for ‘professional user'

Producers and importers putting equipment onto the market for professional users can enter an agreement with a subsequent level in the distribution chain to transfer its take-back duty. In the context of reporting this is called quantities subject to transfer of responsibility.

Quantities taken back

For previously registered categories the producer or the importer must report quantities taken back as WEEE in the previous calendar year. 

Quantities taken back must be registered per category and do as such not necessarily represent take-back of the company’s own equipment, since a category contains a broad range of equipment.

In the reporting of quantities taken back the producer/the importer must state how large a proportion of WEEE is taken back from the following sources:

• Municipal collection sites (WEEE from households)
• Collective scheme collection sites
• Own collection

Quantities treated

For previously registered categories the producer or the importer must report quantities of WEEE sent for treatment in the previous calendar year and to which treatment facilities. Reporting must be made per category. Also the degree of efficiency of the treated volumes must be reported.