WEEE Forum
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Forum aisbl (WEEE Forum) is a European not-for-profit association headquartered in Brussels. The organisation was founded in April 2002 as answer to the EU legislators adoption of Directive 2002/96/EC on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE). It represents non-profit oriented producer responsibility organisations (PRO) that manage WEEE (also referred to as electronic waste or e-waste).
European Projects
1. WEEELABEX
(WEEE Label of Excellence) European Standards for Treatment and Recycling of e-waste and for Monitoring the Processing Companies. Co-financed by the European Commission under its LIFE+ programme, WEELABEX was chosen one of the Best of the Best LIFE project completed in 2013
2. CWIT
Together with INTERPOL, UNU and other partners, WEEE Forum was part of the consortium working on the CWIT (Countering WEEE Illegal Trade) project. The outcome was a set of recommendations to the European Commission and law enforcement authorities that will assist them in countering the illegal trade of WEEE within and from Europe. The project was funded by the Seventh Framework Programme.
WF-RepTool
WF-RepTool is a common reporting system for treatment results, the structure of which consists of background data including, but not limited to the following: Common lists of names for input and output fractions, based on the European Waste Catalogue, a common list of names for the technologies used, a model classification for different input fractions to different final processes (rulings of the European Court of Justice were identified for this classification), a model for the calculation of 'shares' for the reuse of components or WEEE, material recycling, energy recovery and disposal, which are the basis to calculate recycling & recovery quotas.