You are a producer or importer of a non-packaging product in case you launch a non-packaging product to the market regardless of the sales method used, including remote sale. If you are a producer or an importer of a non-packaging product you can meet the obligations individually if your annual production is less than 100 kg or collectively based on a contract concluded with a Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO) if your production per year is more than 100 kg.
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EXTENDED RESPONSIBILITY OF PRODUCERS AND IMPORTERS
It is a set of obligations of a producer and of importers related to a product during all its life-cycle phases aimed at prevention of waste formation from a given product and increase of options of recycling or re-use.
A non-packaging product is a product that is neither a packaging nor it is intended for packing and it belongs to any of the below stated product groups and the waste thereof is a part of the communal waste. You can learn more about the non-packaging products in “Important information” section.
When are you a producer or an importer of non-packaging
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IMPORTANT
Which products belong to the group of non-packaging products?
Plastics
Plastic products on the basis of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS), polyvinyl chloride (PVC) or polyamide (PA), except for the materials, fibres and products intended for industrial use.
Paper and paperboard
Paper and paperboard, imported paper and paperboard products including printing industry products except for:
- Hygienic and sanitary paper;
- Paper products used for hygiene and sanitary purposes;
- Cigarette paper;
- Carbon copy paper,
- Filtration paper;
- Paper and paperboard for the production of tarred and asphalted paper;
- Postal stationery
Glass
glass including panel window glass
OBLIGATIONS OF PRODUCERS OF SPECIFIED PRODUCTS
- Registration in the Register of Specified Products and announcing changes of registered data;
- Appointing an authorized representative in case a producer of the specified product does not have a registered office or place of business in the Slovak Republic;
- Ensuring material composition of the specified products in compliance with the special part of Act on Waste No. 79/2015 Coll.;
- Meeting the information obligation in relation to the public and processor of the specified waste stream in compliance with the special part of Act on Waste No. 79/2015 Coll.;
- Ensuring of meeting the goals defined in Annex No. 3 of Act on Waste No. 79/2015 Coll.;
- Ensuring manipulation with the specified waste stream within the extent and in a way defined by a special part of Act on Waste No. 79/2015 Coll.;
- Ensuring revaluation and recycling of the specified waste stream at least in the extent of obligatory goals and limits of revaluation and recycling for the specified waste stream, stipulated in Annex No. 3 of Act on Waste No. 79/2015 Coll.;
- Administration and keeping the records and notification of the Ministry about the data from the records in a defined extent and keeping of reported data (The report of data from the records shall be submitted for the period of a calendar year until the 28th February of the following year);
- Meeting the information obligation in relation to the end users of a specified product in compliance with the special part of Act on Waste No. 79/2015 Coll. and in a defined way;
- Calculation of their collection and market shares in compliance with the special part of Act on Waste No. 79/2015 Coll. based on the data published by the Ministry on its website;
- Ensuring meeting the goals of collection stipulated in Annex No. 3a of Act on Waste No. 79/2015 Coll.
By concluding of the contract on fulfilment of specified obligations between a producer of a specified product and the respective Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO), the responsibility of a producer of a specified product for fulfilment of specified obligations shall be transferred to this Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO)
STRUCTURE OF E-CYCLING S.R.O. MEMBERS ACCORDING TO INDIVIDUAL TYPES OF PRODUCTS
Products launched to the market in the Slovak Republic stipulated in kilograms and per cents
Non-packaging products – market launch (kg)
Non-packaging products – percentage share
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