Equipment for private households:
Compliance with the banned substances act §4 EAG VO.
Labelling of goods for the consumer market from 13th August 2005.
Registration as a manufacturer with the Environment Agency Austria -Umweltbundesamt GmbH (UBA)
Quarterly reporting of the quantity of goods in the consumer market
Financial indemnity for all new equipment put on the market
Access to around 100 waste collection points (1 per political district)
Collection and recycling (treatment/re-use/compliance with recycling targets)
Fulfilment of pick-up requests from the coordination centres.
Reporting of returns data.
Keeping consumers informed.
Return of waste electrical equipment to collection points (the manufacturer as well as the municipality).
Alternative: sorting out individual returns, registering as the responsible party and finalising sorting contracts with every collection point in Austria.
Equipment for commercial purposes:
Compliance with the banned substances act §4 EAG VO.
Labelling of equipment put on the market from 13th August 2005.
Registration as a manufacturer with the Environment Agency Austria - Umweltbundesamt GmbH (UBA).
Quarterly reporting of the amount of electrical and electronic equipment on the market.
Returns of old waste equipment when new equipment is purchased and, in particular, equipment put on the market by you since 13th August 2005 (can be made non-mandatory by individual arrangements).
Treatment, recycling and reporting of returned waste electrical equipment.
Information on new types of electrical and electronic equipment for treatment system operators (disassembly instructions).
Old waste electrical equipment (put on the market before 12th August 2005)
Participation in a system is obligatory for the aforementioned equipment for private households according to the EAG-VO regulations.
Participation in a system is also possible for the aforementioned commercial equipment.
Non-transferable obligations
Compliance with the banned substances act §4 EAG-VO.
Labelling of equipment put on the market after 13th August 2005.
Information on new types of electrical and electronic equipment for the treatment system operators (disassembly instructions).
For exports to consumers/mail-oder retailers within the EU: compliance with the legal position in the Member States and registration with the appropriate government departments (by 10th April of the following year).
1:1 return of an equivalent (type/function) piece of equipment at the place of delivery.
Obeying the law that treatment fees must not be shown separately.