{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2012-19/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2012-19/article-6.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": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Disposal and transport of collected WEEE",
  "text": "1. Member States shall prohibit the disposal of separately collected WEEE which has not yet undergone the treatment specified in Article 8.\n2. Member States shall ensure that the collection and transport of separately collected WEEE is carried out in a way which allows optimal conditions for preparing for re-use, recycling and the confinement of hazardous substances.\nIn order to maximise preparing for re-use, Member States shall promote that, prior to any further transfer, collection schemes or facilities provide, where appropriate, for the separation at the collection points of WEEE that is to be prepared for re-use from other separately collected WEEE, in particular by granting access for personnel from re-use centres.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2012/19/article/6",
    "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."
}