There is no place that currently
has all the up to date implementation information by Member States
on WEEE and RoHS. The EU official website CELEX in principal has
such a site at
http://europa.eu.int/celex/htm/celex_en.htm however as of the
end of January 2005, it has not been updated since August 2004.
This hopefully will be rectified soon. Follow these instructions
to view the information on the site. Select the above link then go
for the "menu searching" option in top left corner of the screen
(you have to input the user name "enlu0000" and the password "europe"
). Select "legislation" and select the criteria in this case
"directives" before pressing "go". To determine the status of the
transposition of the WEEE Directive in the various Member States
enter "2002/96/EC" in the search option. One of the results (at
the bottom of the page) is the WEEE Directive. Chose the "all"
flag and then select the "display the national implementing
measures". Choose the country to link directly with the
legislative reference.
Additionally, the DTI has
commissioned a consultancy (Perchards) to produce a quarterly
update on the transposition of the WEEE Directive. The report is
published on the DTI website and can be down loaded free of
charge. Additional information can be found on
http://164.36.164.20/sustainability/weee/perchardsreport.pdf
Finally in the seeba
members' area of this website the texts from the Member States in
both the national and English language along with key deviations
from other countries are being published as details become
available. It has been put in the members area because of the
large amount of time required search and find the latest
information. Members subscriptions are used to help fund this
work. As of the end of January 2005, the site is fairly up to
date, although for Finland we have only got the Finnish text of
the WEEE and RoHS and although we understand Portugal have
transposed the legislation, we have not yet been able to get hold
of the text.