{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2012-19/annex-VII/division-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2012-19/annex-VII/division-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2012/19",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2012/19/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) (recast) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2012-19",
  "path": "annex/VII/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "As a minimum the following substances, mixtures and components have to be removed from any separately collected WEEE:",
  "text": "polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) containing capacitors in accordance with Council Directive 96/59/EC of 16 September 1996 on the disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls and polychlorinated terphenyls (PCB/PCT),\nmercury containing components, such as switches or backlighting lamps,\nbatteries,\nprinted circuit boards of mobile phones generally, and of other devices if the surface of the printed circuit board is greater than 10 square centimetres,\ntoner cartridges, liquid and paste, as well as colour toner,\nplastic containing brominated flame retardants,\nasbestos waste and components which contain asbestos,\ncathode ray tubes,\nchlorofluorocarbons (CFC), hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFC) or hydrofluorocarbons (HFC), hydrocarbons (HC),\ngas discharge lamps,\nliquid crystal displays (together with their casing where appropriate) of a surface greater than 100 square centimetres and all those back-lighted with gas discharge lamps,\nexternal electric cables,\ncomponents containing refractory ceramic fibres as described in Commission Directive 97/69/EC of 5 December 1997 adapting to technical progress for the 23rd time Council Directive 67/548/EEC on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances,\ncomponents containing radioactive substances with the exception of components that are below the exemption thresholds set in Article 3 of and Annex I to Council Directive 96/29/Euratom of 13 May 1996 laying down basic safety standards for the protection of the health of workers and the general public against the dangers arising from ionizing radiation,\nelectrolyte capacitors containing substances of concern (height > 25 mm, diameter > 25 mm or proportionately similar volume).\nThese substances, mixtures and components shall be disposed of or recovered in compliance with Directive 2008/98/EC.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 243, 24.9.1996, p. 31."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 343, 13.12.1997, p. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 159, 29.6.1996, p. 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2012/19/annex/VII/division/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:57.105506+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}