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Legal Basis WEEE Directive: Article 175 EC Treaty – Environmental Protection It shall « not prevent any Member State from maintaining or introducing more stringent protective measures » (Art. 176) RoHS Directive: Article 95 EC Treaty – Harmonisation of EU law / Single Market National derogations are not possible (except under very strict circumstances) Therefore, a Member State cannot normally add a 7th or 8th hazardous substance to the 6 banned under RoHS WHITE & CASE LLP
Consequences A patchwork of different substance bans in different Member States was considered to be very damaging – would have destroyed EU Single Market Some Member States already had electronic waste legislation – which differed in various respects WEEE Art 175 was meant to give them the option to stick to some of their national choices Since WEEE primarily determines the scope of both WEEE and RoHS, it is possible that the scope of products covered by WEEE/RoHS differs nationally. Other differences? E.g. : “Producers to provide at least for collection of WEEE deposited at collection facilities” (Art 8.1) WHITE & CASE LLP
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