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Version: 11
08.11.2022
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Electrical and electronic equipment
Information for private households according to § 18 para. 4 ElektroG
The Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (ElektroG) contains a large number of requirements
for the handling of electrical and electronic equipment. The most important ones are summarised
here.
1. Separate collection of waste equipment
Electrical and electronic equipment that has become waste is referred to as WEEE. Owners of
WEEE must dispose of it separately from unsorted municipal waste. In particular, WEEE does
not belong in household waste, but in special collection and return systems. 2.
2. Batteries, rechargeable batteries and lamps
Owners of WEEE must, as a rule, separate spent batteries and accumulators that are not
enclosed in the WEEE, as well as lamps that can be removed from the WEEE without causing
damage, from the WEEE before handing them in at a collection point. This does not apply if
WEEE is prepared for re-use with the participation of a public waste management authority.
3. Options for the return of WEEE
Owners of WEEE from private households can return it free of charge to the collection points of
the public waste management authorities or to the take-back points set up by manufacturers or
distributors as defined by the ElektroG.
Shops with a sales area of at least 400 m² for electrical and electronic equipment as well as
those grocery shops with a total sales area of at least 800 m² which offer electrical and
electronic equipment several times a year or on a permanent basis and make it available on the
market are obliged to take it back. This also applies to distribution using means of distance
communication if the storage and dispatch areas for EEE are at least 400 m² or the total storage
and dispatch areas are at least 800 m². Distributors shall in principle ensure take-back by
providing suitable return facilities at a reasonable distance from the respective end-user.
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