Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme for the Electrical & Electronic Equipment Sector, 2020

1. Definitions

In this Notice any word or expression to which a meaning has been assigned in the Act and in the Extended Producer Responsibility Regulations 2020, bears that meaning, and unless the context indicates otherwise—"brand owner" means a person, category of persons or company who makes and/or sells any product under a brand label;"electrical and electronic equipment" means equipment which is dependent on electric currents or electromagnetic fields in order to work properly and equipment for the generation, transfer and measurement of such currents and fields and designed for use with a voltage rating not exceeding 1 000 volts for alternating current and 1 500 volts for direct current;"extended producer responsibility" means that a producer's responsibility for their product is extended to the post-consumer stage of a product’s life cycle;"importer" means a person or category of persons that bring finished goods or their individual components into the country from abroad;"producer" means any person or category of persons or a brand owner who is engaged in the commercial manufacture, conversion, refurbishment or import of new and/or used electrical and electronic equipment as identified by the Minister by Notice in the Government Gazette in terms of section 18(1) of the Act;"producer responsibility organisation" means a not-for-profit organisation established by any person operating in any of the industrial sectors covered in this Notice to support the implementation of their extended producer responsibility scheme; and"refurbishment" means restoring old products to a working condition which must be available for reuse and which restores its original function;[defintion of "refurbishment" inserted by section 15(a) of Government Notice 400 of 2021]"the Act" means the National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008 (Act No. 59 of 2008); and"the Regulations" means the Extended Producer Responsibility Regulations, 2020 issued under section 69(1)(b), (g), (i), (l), (o), (dd) and (ee) of the Act.

2. Purpose of the Notice

3. Scope of the Notice

4. The identification of a product or class of products to which extended producer responsibility applies

5. Identification of the person or category of persons responsible for developing and implementing an extended producer responsibility scheme

Producers of the items listed in paragraph 4 of this Notice are responsible for developing and implementing an extended producer responsibility scheme.

6. Responsibilities of producers

7. Targets for each identified waste stream for the products listed in paragraph 4 of this Notice

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This Notice comes into effect on 5 May 2021.[section 8 added by section 5(b) of Government Notice 20 of 2021]