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BIS selects techUK-backed JTA WEEE compliance fee proposal
For the second year running, the JTA will run the compliance fee mechanism, which supports a fairer WEEE system in the UK.
The Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) yesterday announced its decision to select the techUK-backed Joint Trade Association (JTA) waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) compliance fee mechanism for the second year running.
The JTA is a grouping of nine leading trade associations in the electrotechnical sector, collectively representing 90% of the WEEE producer obligation in the UK. Three producer owned, and led, WEEE producer compliance schemes (PCSs) also contribute to the work of the JTA. It came together to achieve the common goal of introducing a fairer WEEE system in the UK.
Every year, BIS can approve a compliance fee. This provides Producer Compliance Schemes with a method of compliance if they have not collected the WEEE needed to meet their target. The JTA proposal for 2015 builds upon the JTA system successfully operated in 2014.
Commenting on the news, JTA Chairman Richard Hughes, technical manager at AMDEA said: “We are delighted by this news. The JTA has worked very hard to ensure that our proposal was robust, workable, and economically sound. To help us achieve this we used two fully independent professional economic consultancy groups. FTI consulting developed the formula upon which the calculation method is based and Frontier Economics then reviewed the fee calculation methodology and added some further enhancements in the light of the previous year’s experience.”
Susanne Baker, head of environment & compliance at techUK added: “We are pleased that the Government has chosen to implement a compliance fee. The JTA is fully committed to the removal of red tape in the WEEE system, and the availability of a correctly formulated compliance fee is an important element in achieving this.”
"The JTA has again nominated Mazars, one of the UK’s top ten accountancy firms, as the administrator of the fee. PCSs can therefore be confident that where they choose to use the fee, their applications will be handled efficiently."
