{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-regulations-2013/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-regulations-2013/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/3113",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Marking EEE with a date mark",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the application of regulation 24A, a producer or authorised representative must mark EEE that he places on the market in such a manner that the equipment can be easily identified as having been placed on the market after 13th August 2005 (“the date mark”).\n(2) The date mark must be affixed in a visible, legible and indelible form to each item of equipment.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(1) inserted (12.8.2025) by The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Amendment, etc.) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/910), regs. 1(2), 10(1) (with reg. 27)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 23 substituted (25.7.2014) by The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment and Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1771), regs. 1(b), 3(2), Sch. 1 para. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 23(1) substituted (12.8.2025) by The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Amendment, etc.) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/910), regs. 1(2), 10(2) (with reg. 27)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 23 in force at 1.1.2014, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/3113/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:32:34.822986+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."
}