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Examples of our Full Text Documents (International)
Full texts of new bills, proposals and laws will be posted on this site as we get them -- many on pay-per-view, others free to subscribers. The full text of battery and electronics laws will only be available to global password holders and those who purchase the extended appendix of the new batteries and electronics reports.
Here is a partial list of our documents:
Packaging
Packaging Directive, 94/62/EC, December 1994
Commission Decision 97/129/EC on Packaging Materials Identification
DG Environment Working Document on Revision of the Packaging Directive, September 2000
DG Environment Comments on CEN Standards, September 2000
Durables
Battery Directive, 93/86/EEC, October 1993
Amendment, 98/101/EC, to Battery Directive, 1998
Amended Hazardous Waste List, May 2000
End of Life Vehicle Directive, 2000/53/EC, September 2000
Draft Directive on EEE Design, September 2000 (We will post whichever document is most current as we get it)
Draft Directive on WEEE, December 2000
Draft Directive on Hazardous Materials in WEEE, December 2000
Report: Chemical Recycling of Plastics Waste (PVC and Other Resins), December 1999
EC Green Paper on PVC, July 2000
CEFIC/EACEM/EECA/EICTA/EUROMETAUX Guidance Document on Heavy Metals, August 2000
Landfill Directive,1999/31/EC, 1999
Ecolabeling
Decision 2000/730/EC Establishing Eco-labelling Board
Nordic Swan Criteria:
Rechargeable Batteries
Primary Batteries
Light Sources
Printers and Fax Machines
Washing Machines
Europe
Austria
Amendment to Packaging Ordinance, May 1995
Belgium
Battery Law, 1996 [French]
Ecotax Law, 1996
Czech Republic
Summary of Waste Law, 125/1997
Denmark
WEEE Law, Ministry of the Environment Statutory Order No. 1067, December 1998
Battery Law, Ministry of the Environment Executive Order No. 966, December 1993
France
Battery Decree, No. 99-374, May 1999 [French]
Packaging Waste Decree, No. 93-277, of April 1992
Germany
Summary of Closed Substance Cycle and Waste Management Act, July 1994
Packaging Ordinance, August 1998
Wolfram Brück, DSD, "Berlin Declaration on the Development of Duales System Deutschland AG,"
at the Resources Summit, Berlin, May 2000
Hungary
Environment Product Fee Act, 1995
Netherlands
Batteries Disposal Decree, January 1995
Stibat (battery collection organization) Implementation Plan, 1995
Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, July 1997
Packaging Covenant II, December 1997
White and Brown Goods Decree, No. 238, April 1998
Guidelines, Disposal of White and Brown Goods Decree
Fact Sheet on Cadmium Decree, 1999
Norway
Agreement between MoE and white goods industry, March 1998
WEEE Regulations, March 1998
Electronics Law, May 1999
Electronics Fee Table
Poland
Draft Packaging and Packaging Waste Act, April 2000
Draft Producer Responsibility Act, April 2000
Sweden
Battery Regulation, July 1997
Switzerland
Battery Ordinance, 1998 Amendment
WEEE Ordinance, January 1998
United Kingdom
Department of the Environment, Transportation,
and Regions Packaging Recovery Planning Report (Forward Look), July 2000
North America
Canada
Quebec: Product Stewardship Law, Chapter 75, 1999
Ontario: Waste Diversion Organization Report, September 2000
Environment Canada Report on IT and Telecom Waste, October 2000
Asia/Pacific
Australia
Used Packaging Materials National Environmental Protection Measure, July 1999
New South Wales: Report of the Alternative Waste Management Technologies and Practices Inquiry, April 2000
New South Wales: Used Packaging Materials Industry Waste Reduction Plan, September 2000
China
Solid Waste Law, 1995
Japan
Law for Promotion of Utilization of Recyclable Resources, Public Law No. 48, 1991 [Since Amended]
Chart of Battery Color Coding
Text Summary of Battery Coding System
Summary of Container and Packaging Recycling Law, 1995
Household Appliance Recycling Act, 1998
Recycling Law, May 2000 [Provisional Translation]
Recycling Law Chart, 2000
Recycling Law Summary, July 2000
Summary of Subcommittee Report on Packaging Marking, August 2000
Subcommittee Report on Personal Computer Recycling, December 2000 [Japanese]
Markings Under Container and Packaging Recycling Law, Effective April 1, 2001
Draft Ordinance on PC Recycling, January 2001
Korea
Resources Saving and Recycling Promotion Act, Amended 1995
Packaging Regulation, 1999
Draft Amendment to the Act on the Promotion of Saving and Recycling of Resources, July 2000
Taiwan
Waste Disposal Act, Revised 1997
Packaging Regulation, 1997 [Chinese]
Fundamentals for Promoting the Use of the Taiwan Ecolabel, 1992, Revised 1997
Battery Recycling Subsidy Regulation, 2000
Battery Baseline Values Regulation, 2000
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