# The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Amendment, etc.) Regulations 2025, Regulation 5


After regulation 2C insert—
“Meaning of producer
2D (1) A person is a “producer” for the purposes of these Regulations if one or more of the following applies—
(a) the person is established in the United Kingdom and manufactures EEE under his own name or trademark, or has EEE designed or manufactured and markets it under his own name or trademark within the United Kingdom;
(b) the person is established in the United Kingdom and resells within the United Kingdom, under his own name or trademark, EEE manufactured by other suppliers, a reseller not being regarded as the “producer” if the name or trademark of another person who is the producer appears on the EEE as provided for in sub-paragraph (a);
(c) the person is established in the United Kingdom and places on the market EEE from a country other than the United Kingdom;
(d) except where paragraph (2) applies, the person is a non-UK supplier supplying EEE directly to private households or to users other than private households in the United Kingdom.
(2) This paragraph applies where a non-UK supplier—
(a) supplies EEE to private households in the United Kingdom on an online marketplace; and
(b) is not the operator of the online marketplace on which the sale or other supply was facilitated.
(3) Where paragraph (2) applies the online marketplace operator is the producer (the “OMP producer”) in relation to the EEE supplied by the non-UK supplier.
(4) In these Regulations, reference to a producer includes an OMP producer, except as provided for by regulations 24A and 74(3).
Meaning of non-UK supplier
2E In these Regulations, a “non-UK supplier” means a person who—
(a) supplies goods in the course of business—
(i) on an online marketplace or any other website or mobile application, or
(ii) by means of communication other than on the internet; and
(b) is not established in the United Kingdom.
Meaning of online marketplace etc.
2F (1) In these Regulations, “online marketplace” means a website or mobile application which facilitates the sale or other supply of goods through the website or mobile application by persons other than the operator, whether or not the operator also supplies goods through the online marketplace, and for the purposes of this definition—
(a) references to a “website or mobile application” include any means by which information is made available on the internet;
(b) an online marketplace facilitates the sale or other supply of goods if it allows a person to—
(i) offer goods for sale or offer to supply goods otherwise than by sale; and
(ii) enter into a contract for the sale or other supply of those goods;
(c) “the operator” means the online marketplace operator.
(2) In these Regulations, “online marketplace operator” means, in relation to an online marketplace, the person who controls access to, and the contents of, the online marketplace provided that the person is involved in—
(a) determining any terms and conditions applicable to the sale or other supply of the goods supplied on the online marketplace;
(b) the processing, or facilitating the processing, of payment for those goods; and
(c) the ordering or delivery, or facilitating the ordering or delivery, of those goods.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348272512/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-amendment-etc-regulations-2025/regulation-5
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