scope:

This European Standard is applicable to the treatment of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). This standard will be supplemented, for example by standards covering specific equipment.

NOTE This European Standard is intended to cover WEEE arising from electrical and electronic equipment as listed in Annex I and Annex III of Directive 2012/19/EU. This standard applies to the treatment of WEEE until end-of-waste status is fulfilled, or until the WEEE is prepared for re-use, recycled, recovered, or disposed of.

This standard addresses all operators involved in the treatment including related handling, sorting, and storage of WEEE.

This clause of part 1 is replaced with the following:

This European Standard is applicable to the treatment of photovoltaic panels as mentioned in the WEEE Directive under Annex 4.

The scope of this document is limited to photovoltaic panels with a minimum surface area of 0,2 m².

This European Standard applies to the treatment of photovoltaic panels until end-of-waste status is fulfilled, or photovoltaic panel fractions are recycled, recovered or disposed.

This European Standard addresses all operators involved in the treatment including related handling, sorting and storage of photovoltaic panels. This European Standard applies to all facilities including those whose treatment operations using mobile treatment installation.