COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Environment

Management of electrical and electronic waste, Court invalidates part of ‘WEEE’ directive for undue retroactive passing on of costs to producers

Brussels, 25/01/2022 (Agence Europe)

In a preliminary judgment (Case C-181/20 Vysočina Wind) on Tuesday 25 January, the Court of Justice of the European Union partially invalidated Article 13(1) of the ‘WEEE’ Directive on the management of electrical and electronic waste (2012/19/EU), which entered into force on 13 August 2012.

The Court considers that this directive unduly requires producers of photovoltaic panels to finance costs relating to the management of the waste from those panels, even when they were placed on...