Gateshead-based WEEE compliance scheme WEEE Light Ltd is set to stand trial at Crown Court in April 2013 to face charges of non-compliance with the WEEE Regulations.
The company, which was formed by WEEE compliance scheme AVC WEEEco Ltd in 2008, appeared in Sheffield Crown Court on Friday (November 9) and a trial was then scheduled to begin on April 22 2013.
The Environment Agency claims that the company failed to comply with a viable plan to collect an amount of WEEE equivalent to the amount for which it was responsible for financing under regulation 41 of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Regulations 2006.
It has also been accused of failing to inform the Agency in writing of a material change in the operational plan it had submitted, by using two approved authorised treatment facilities to treat WEEE which were not mentioned in the operational plan.
The company has become the first to face legal proceedings for alleged non compliance since they became law in January 2007. WEEE Light claims that the case stems from a disagreement with the Environment Agency over a technical matter arising from the 2010 compliance period.
The company has yet to enter a plea in the case.
The full Environment Agency charges against WEEE Light Ltd:
- That during the period 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010, as the operator of a scheme approved under regulation 41 of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Regulations 2006 (as amended), WEEE Light Limited failed to continue to meet the requirement for the approval of its scheme in Schedule 7, Part 4, paragraph 4 of the said regulations, in that it failed to comply with a viable plan to collect an amount of WEEE equivalent to the amount of WEEE for which it was responsible for financing under the said regulations, contrary to regulation 43(i) of the said regulations, this being an offence under regulation 73(3)(a) of the said regulations.
- That during the period 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010, as the operator of a scheme approved under regulation 41 of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Regulations 2006 (as amended), WEEE Light Limited failed to inform the Environment Agency, as the appropriate authority, in writing of a material change in the operational plan it had submitted in accordance with regulation 41(4)(b)(iii) of the said regulations within 28 days of this change occurring, this material change being its use of two approved authorised treatment facilities operated by TLC Ltd to treat WEEE which were not mentioned in the operational plan, contrary to regulation 43(d)(ii)(dd) of the said regulations, this being an offence under regulation 73(3)(a) of the said regulations.
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