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Ecolum and Aserluz report on the WEEE regulations in the illuminated signs
10/01/2011
on January 10, 2011
The Foundation Ecolum, along with Aserluz, Spanish Association of entrepreneurs of luminous signs and related industries, runs several Spanish cities, different information days, explaining the inclusion of the illuminated signs in electrical and electronic equipment regulations and the management of their waste.
The illuminated signs, such as electrical and electronic equipment, are included in the scope of the regulation on WEEE existing since 2005 (Royal Decree 208/2005), however, as result of their characteristics and the variety of devices that are in the sector had not been defined clearly the category of the Royal Decree in which should encompass. During the year 2010 and following the steps that had been making the Ministry of industry and responsible management of the national register of producers of equipment for lighting (REI-WEEE) have clarified his situation and the illuminated signs have been included in category 5 'apparatus for lighting' with the aforementioned rulesreason by which, the Ecolum Foundation along with Aserluz they have organized a series of information days to get to all the companies in the sector.
Image of one of the days Aserluz and Ecolum have been held in several Spanish cities.
During these days special emphasis on the obligations which establishes the rules for companies (those that manufactured the device, imported it or put him on the market with its brand) and in the solutions and facilities that the Ecolum Foundation gives them as integrated system of management (GIS) authorized and experienced both in the lighting sector and regards the management of waste electrical and electronic equipment. The most important obligations include the following:
- Producers must be responsible, either as individual or adhering to a SIG of the devices that put on the market at the end of its useful life, i.e. when they become waste, ensuring their proper management.
- Producers must be registered in the REI-WEEE and declare quarterly devices that put on the market.
