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Industry also has a proactive role in developing voluntary standards and in advocating for their adoption and implementation across EU Member States, including the recent EU CENELEC EN-50625 standard1.
In addition to the development of standards, it is critical to ensure a wide adoption and enforcement. WEEELABEX2 - which can nowadays provide a good proxy of the future implementation of EN 50625 series, and its roll-out across EU gives an idea of the current situation. Considering the current status of adoption and the average treatment capacity of recycling plants the following “WEEELABEX Certified” treatment capacity across Europe can be estimated. When considering the WEEE Generated, the need of wider adoption of standards is clearly evident.
Coverage of WEEELABEX facilities in December 2016 on total WEEE Generated
Ireland
0%
26%
0%
United Kingdom
0%
0%
5,1%
France
28,1%
21,2%
28,8%
Portugal
14,6%
61,5%
42%
Czech Republic
28,1%
Germany 30,4%
0% 0% 5,4%
4,1%
Netherlands
46,8%
44,9%
19,1%
Belgium
35,8%
56,5%
15,9%
Spain Italy
0,2% 4,2%
1,3% 9,4%
6,3% 50,2%
Austria Romania
0% 10,4%
0% 16,7%
24% 12,0%
Large appliances Small appliances Cooling & Freezing
1http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/weee/standards_en.htm 2http://www.weeelabex.org/standards/
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