Enforcement authority and enforcement fees
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, and the municipalities are the appointed enforcement authorities for the producer responsibility of electrical and electronic equipment.
Guidance
Enforcement authority for producer responsibilities
The EPA is responsible for compiling information from producers and to evaluate and enforce producers' compliance with the producer responsibility provisions.
Swedish data on producer responsibility for EEE and batteries is collected from producers and collective schemes by the EEB-register and then reported by the EPA to the EU-commission.
Annual enforcement fee
The EPA charge an annual fee for enforcement of electrical and electronic equipment and batteries. The fee covers administration expenses, managing of the EEB-register and other expenses in order to enforce compliance. The annual fee has been set to 1000 SEK for each producer responsibility. For producers of both EEE and batteries the total fee is 2000 SEK.
Legislation
EEE/WEEE
Other relevant legislation for the producer responsibility
(In Swedish only)
Hazardous substances
Legal enforcement
(In Swedish only)
Background
The Environmental Protection Agency has been assigned as the enforcement authority through Section 24 in the Ordinance (2011:13) on environmental enforcement and is responsible for reviewing that the nationwide regulations on producer responsibility are fulfilled.
The Swedish Ordinance (2014:1075) on producer responsibility for electrical and electronic equipment (EEE), which entered into force in October 2014, is the Swedish implementation of the WEEE-directive. WEEE is short form waste electrical and electronic equipment.
The scope of the producer responsibility changed in 2018. The categories of EEE changes and the producer responsibility will cover more product types.