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Introduction to EPR for E-Waste Registration
To control producers’ Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), an EPR Authorization is needed. Producers are required to submit Form 1 of the Rules to CPCB in order to acquire an EPR Authorization. Through this online E-Waste Registration System, applicants may submit applications for the issuance of EPR Authorization online. The current module, an EPR Application module, allows for the online application and approval of EPR Authorizations. All participants in this system, including manufacturers, PROs, dismantlers, recyclers, and refurbishers, are required to register. Transporters and collecting points/centers are added to this system by producers, PROs, deconstructionists, recyclers, and refurbishers.
Who Must Register for an E-Waste License?
Regardless of the distribution method, anybody involved in the selling process, such as dealers, retailers, e-retailers, etc., is considered a producer.
(i) Producing and marketing electrical and electronic equipment, as well as the parts, accessories, and spares that go with it under its own brand.
(ii) Markets its brand to sell consumables, parts, and spares made by other suppliers or manufacturers for assembled electrical and electronic equipment.
(iii) Offers for sale imported electrical and electronic products, including parts, consumables, accessories, and replacement parts.
Duties of Producers/Manufacturers Concerning EPR Certificate for E-Waste
Producers’ duties include-
- Portal signup.
- Using the portal to find and put into practise extended producer responsibility aims in line with Schedule III and Schedule IV
- Raising awareness by using the media, publications, commercials, posters, or any other kind of communication
- Annual and quarterly returns must be submitted in the format specified on the site on or before the last day of the month that follows the quarter or year to which they pertain.
Manufacturers’ duties include-
- Register for a profile on the platform.
- Electrical and electronic equipment manufacture produces electronic waste, which should be gathered and recycled or disposed of.
- As soon as possible after the end of the month that follows the quarter or year to which the return pertains be sure to submit your annual and quarterly returns on the site in the form supplied.
Duration
EPR authorizations must be issued by the CPCB within 120 days of receiving a full application, as per E-Waste registration laws. The CPCB may verify an incomplete application and issue a checklist within 25 days.
Documentation Needed for the EPR Registration for E-Waste Process
For the E-Waste License Registration process, the following documentation is required-
- IEC Copy (Export & Import Code)
- GST Copy
- Pan Card
- Certificate of Incorporation of Pvt. Ltd.
- Last ten years’ sales detail of product if any sale previous (Quantity & Weight-Year Wise)
- Product details with model number
- Country of origin
- Contact details – Telephone, Email ID & Mobile Number
Method for Renewing EPR Registration for electronic
The EPR certificate for e-waste needs to be renewed after five years of validity. Following are the steps to renew your E-Waste EPR Registration Certificate-
- To obtain a renewal, Form-1 must be submitted within 60 days of the expiration.
- After the applicable central pollution control board or pollution control committee’s compliance report has been confirmed, renewal will be taken into account.
- If there are no breaches of the authorization terms, the renewal application will be approved. The central pollution control board keeps track of these facts in a registry.
Licence holders’ Post Registration Duties
According to the E-waste (Management) Rules, 2016, the following standards must be met by licence holders-
- Holders of a RoHS registration should have technical documentation on hand for inspection needs.
- Please provide a notification via Enclosure A to the appropriate authorities before launching any new items.
- Information about RoHS must be provided in the product booklet or brochure. Production businesses should keep records of how their e-waste is channelled. Companies that recycle materials are likewise accountable for adhering to this requirement.
- According to Form 2 of these regulations, manufacturers are required to keep track of their electronic waste and provide it to the CPCB when it conducts inspections.
- A technique or process for accumulation must be devised after the authorized EPR plan.
- Producers are required to submit an annual return to the CPCB in the specified form, namely form 3, on or before June 30th of the year after the end of the F.Y. to which the return refers.
- Manufacturers and producers are required to follow certified plans for EPR Registration for Electronic.
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EPR Authorization’s Function Regarding E-Waste
- Electronic items can be made more robust, repairable, and recyclable through the circular economy, lowering their lifetime environmental effect.
- The producer will be in charge of handling end-of-life waste.
- Reduces the quantity of e-waste that is disposed of improperly or shipped to developing nations for hazardous recycling.
- The expansion of the recycling sector, the creation of jobs, and the reduction of the usage of virgin materials can all have a positive economic impact.
- By shifting the cost of managing e-waste to the manufacturers, trash generation may be decreased, and sustainability may be increased.
- Its laws and policies can differ greatly from one nation to another and from region to region depending on things like enforcement, public awareness, and stakeholder participation.
- Under EPR schemes, businesses are in charge of every stage of a product’s life cycle. These programmes facilitate compliance with collection and recovery target compliance.
- Producer Responsibility Organisations (PROs) are frequently given responsibility by manufacturers and producers. As a result, adequate money is guaranteed, small and local governments can collaborate, and recycling is economical.
- Businesses are encouraged to switch to a circular economy model in order to improve their products since EPR is a potent policy tool.
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E Waste FAQ
Electrical and electronic equipment EEE means equipment which are dependent on electric current or electromagnetic field to become functional and also the equipment for the generation, transfer and measurements of electricity as addressed by E-WASTE management rules 2022.
E-waste means electrical and electronic equipment, including solar photovoltaic modules or panels or cells, whole or in part discarded as waste, as well as rejects from manufacturing, refurbishment and repair processes.
E-waste contains useful material of economic benefit such as
1. plastic, iron, glass, aluminium, copper,
2. precious metals - silver, gold, platinum, and indium
3. Rare earth elements - lanthanum, neodymium
4. Hazardous substances - lead, cadmium, mercury
5. Toxic substances - polychlorinated bi-phenyls, etched chemicals.
6. The most complex mix of substances is usually present in the printed circuit boards [ PCB ] / printed wiring boards [ PWP ].
E-waste contains hazardous substances such as lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polychlorinated bi- phenyls [ PCB], brominated flame retardants [ BFR ], polybrominated diphenyl ethers, polybrominated biphenyls.
E-waste can pose a risk to health and the environment if the e-waste is opened -up and
attempts are made to retrieve useful components or materials in a un- scientific manner or if the material is disposed of in the open. the electronic and electrical equipment [ EEE] after their useful life may not cause any harm if stored safely in
households/stores. Stakeholders need to ensure the environmentally sound management of e-waste.
The management of e-waste in India is regulated under e-waste management rules 2022 under the Environment Protection Act 1986. Furthermore, the rules are effective from 1 April 2023.
For addressing e-waste management rules, the 2022 ministry's objective is to ensure that e-waste is managed in such a manner that does not pose any threat to health and the environment which may result from such e-waste.
The merits of the e-waste management rule 2022 are as follows -
a. EPR for producer of electrical or electronic equipment as given in Schedule 1 for meeting the recycling targets as per Schedule 3 and Schedule 4 only through registered recyclers of e-waste to ensure environmentally sound management of such waste.
b. Enforcement of provision regarding reduction in the use of hazardous substances in the manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment.
c.Interaction with the IT industry to reduce hazardous substances.
d.Set and revise targets for compliance with the reduction in the use of hazardous substances in the manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment from time to time.
e.Ensure RoHS compliance and its certifications through a recognized lab and its mandatory checks.
f.106 EEE under seven categories have been covered.
g.Focuses on recycling - e-waste recycling targets an EPR obligation to producers in terms of end products of recycling.
h.Provision for generation of EPR certificate on the EPR portal based on e-waste recycled in terms of four end products [ gold, copper, aluminium, iron ]
i.Producers fulfil their EPR obligation by proportionately purchasing EPR certificates on the portal from registered recyclers.
j.Encouraging re-use of EEE through the generation of refurbishing certificates.
k.Management of solar photovoltaic modules or panels or cells, is included in the schedule however, no recycling target only storage till 2034-35.
l.Provision for imposition and collection of environmental compensation charges in case of violation of any of the provisions of these rules.
m.File quarterly and annual returns by producers.
n.Audit of stakeholders.
E-waste management rule 2022 shall apply to every manufacturer, producer, recycler, refurbisher and dismantler involved in the manufacture, sale, transfer, purchase, refurbishing, dismantling, recycling and processing of e-waste or electrical and electronic equipment listed in Schedule 1, including their components, consumables, parts and spares which make the product operational.
The e- waste management rules 2022 shall not apply to the following -
a. Waste batteries as covered under the battery waste management rules 2022.
b. Packaging plastics as covered under the plastic waste management rules 2016.
c. micro-enterprise as defined in the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act 2006 [ 27 of 2006 ].
d. Radio-active wastes as covered under the provision of the Atomic Energy Act 1962.[33 of 1962 ] and rules made there under.
Manufacturer means a person or stakeholder or a company as defined in the Company Act 2013 [ 18 of 2013 ] or a factory as defined in the Factories Act 1948 [ 63 of of1948 ] or Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act 2006 [ 27 of 2006 ] which has facilities for manufacturing of electrical and electronic equipment as specified in Schedule 1 as addressed by e- waste management rule 2022.
Producer means any person who irrespective of the selling technique used such as dealer, retailer, and e-retailer as addressed by e-waste M rule 2022.
a.Manufactures and offers to sell electrical and electronic equipment and their Components or consumables or parts or spares under its brand.
b. Assembled electrical and electronic equipment and their components or consumables or parts or spares produced by other manufacturers or suppliers.
c. sell imported electrical and electronic equipment and their components or consumables
or parts or spares.
d. Who imports used electrical and electronic equipment
Refurbisher means any person or stakeholder repairing or assembling used electrical and electronic equipment as listed in Schedule 1 for extending its working life over its originally intended life and for the same use as originally intended and selling them in the market.
Recycler means any person or stakeholder who is engaged in recycling and reprocessing of waste electrical and electronic equipment or assemblies
or their components or their parts for recovery of precious, semi-precious metals including rare earth elements and other useful recoverable materials to strengthen the secondary sourced materials and having facilities as addressed by CPCB.
Recyclers and refurbishers can collect e-waste from anywhere in the country for the purpose of recycling or refurbishing.
RoHS is the abbreviation for reducing hazardous substances in the manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment. every producer needs to ensure that electrical and electronic equipment and their components do not contain lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls, or polybrominated diphenyl ethers.
In compliance with the e-Waste Management Rule 2022, electrical and electronic equipment must not contain lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls, or polybrominated diphenyl ethers beyond a certain maximum concentration values in homogenous materials: 0.1% for lead, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, and 0.01% for
cadmium.
The RoHS provision in the e-waste management rules for 2023 states
a. Sub-rule 16 doesn't apply to components, consumables, parts, or spares for electrical
and electronic equipment in Schedule 2b, if placed in the market by May 1, 2014,
unless compliant parts and spares aren't available.
b. Sub-rule 16 doesn't apply to electrical and electronic equipment specified in schedule
2c if placed in the market by April 1, 2025.
c. Sub-rule 1 doesn't apply to components, consumables, parts, or spares for electrical
equipment in schedule 2c until April 1, 2028, unless compliant parts and spares are
available.
Producer while seeking EPR registration is required to submit the following declarations
Self-declaration of producer that EEE produced by the producer is complying with the RoHS as per sub rule of rule 16 of the e- waste management rules 2022.
Declaration on availability of technical documents on RoHS are available with producers and will be made available for verification to the officials of CPCB / SPCB.
Solar photovoltaic modules or panels or cells are also covered under e-waste
Management Rule 2022. Every manufacturer and producer of solar photo- voltaic
modules or panels or cells shall store the waste they generate up to the year
2034-2035 as addressed by CPCB.
Extended producer responsibility means the responsibility of any producer of electrical
or electronic equipment as given in schedule 1 for meeting the recycling target as per
schedules 3 and 4 only through registered recyclers of e-waste to ensure
environmentally sound management of such waste.
For the fulfilment of the EPR obligation, producers are required to acquire an EPR
certificate from registered recyclers as addressed by CPCB.
Producers have given phase-wise EPR obligations or recycling targets for e-waste. EPR
obligations are effective from 1 April 2023 and for the FY 2023-2024 & FY 2024-2025, it is
60 % of the quantity of waste generation, followed by 70% during FY 2025-2026 & FY
2026-2027, 80 % during FY 2027-28 and onwards.
a. E-waste recycling target shall be reviewed and may be increased after the end of year
2028- 2029.
b. The importers of used electrical and electronic equipment shall have a 1000 % extended
producer responsibility obligation for the imported material after the end of life, if not
re-exported.
c. e- waste recycling target shall not be applicable for waste generated from solar
photo-voltaic modules or panels or cells.
In case the producer has started sales recently, EPR obligation shall be applicable as per
schedule 4 and these targets are applicable from FY 2023-24 and are 15% of the sales in
2021-2022 and for FY 2024 -25 20 % of the sales in FY 2022-2023 and FY 2025-2026
onwards, it is 20% of the sales figure of the financial year two years back.
Registered producer, recycler and refurbisher of e-waste register on the CPCB portal
can collect e- waste as addressed by e- waste management rules 2022.
A recycler has to ensure that the fractions or materials not recycled in its facility are sent
to the respective registered recyclers. also, the residue generated during the recycling
process is to be disposed of in an authorized treatment storage disposal facility. a
recycler is required to maintain a record of e-waste collected, dismantled, recycled and
sent to a registered recycler on the portal and make available all records for verification or
audit as and when required.
CPCB has prepared an SOP for stakeholders for filing -up, processing & evaluating
applications seeking registration. the SoP elaborates on the information required to be
provided in the application and also details the documents required to be submitted by an
applicant while seeking registration. the SoP have also defined various timelines involved
in the grant of registration.
A manufacturer of EEE listed in Schedule 1 and a refurbisher of e-waste of the rules shall
register itself on the e-waste EPR portal. the manufacturer and refurbisher should have
valid CTO under the Air & Water Act along with authorization under the hazardous and
other waste rules, 2016 from the concerned SPCB. the requirement of CTO is exempted
for the white category industry.
In case of the addition of EEE items in their existing producer registration. the producer is
required to follow the below-mentioned steps.
a. GO to the amendment section
b. Create amendment
c. select addition of EEE
d. Revised Table- 1 [ Table -1 should also have the sales data for EEE items for which
the producer has already been granted EPR registration, and sales data in Table 1
should not be contradictory].
e. Self-declaration on RoHS compliance with revised enclosure -A
f. Declaration on availability of technical documents on RoHS.
In case of a change of company name and address in their existing EPR registration certificate. the producer is required to follow below mentioned steps -
Go to the amendment section
Create amendment
Select name change
Revised GST certificate
Revised IEC certificate
The fee structure of producer, recycler, refurbisher & manufacturer and annual
maintenance charges for all stakeholders for registration on the EPR portal under e-
Waste Management Rules 2022 is mentioned in Annexure 1.
CPCB has developed a framework for the generation of EPR certificates under the e-
Waste Management Rules 2022. The framework provides details on the procedure for the
generation of the EPR certificate, key metals for the generation of the EPR certificate,
and modalities for the fulfilment of EPR obligations.
The average material composition of key metals namely gold, iron, copper & aluminium in
terms of weight in 106 EEE have been estimated by CPCB in consultation with the
concerned stakeholder at e- waste EPR portal under the SOP
A producer shall fulfill their EPR obligation through the online purchase of an EPR
certificate from a registered e- waste recycler.
The EPR obligation is independent of the EEE code. However, the producer has to ensure
the capability recycler to recycle the EEE code for which the producer has been assigned
an EPR obligation.
The maximum quantity of EPR certificate producer may purchase is as follows
X + 0.5x+y
X - EPR obligation in the form of end product [ fe, cu, al & au ]
Y- any leftover liability
In case a producer purchases an EPR certificate for gold more than EPR obligation wrt
gold X au + nXau where xau is EPR obligation in terms of gold, xcu is EPR obligation in
terms of copper, xal is EPR obligation in terms of aluminium and n= % surplus quantity of
gold certificate . as per rules surplus quantity of gold cannot be more than 5%. the
producer has two options.
The producer may opt to reduce EPR liability for gold by nxaukg in the next f/y for that particular EEE item
A Surplus EPR certificate of gold will be used to fulfill the EPR obligation of cu & al for current f/y
Epr obligation will be treated as complete wrt cu and al
If the minimum EPR certificate purchased wrt cu & al are
Xcu -nxcu and xal-nxal
A maximum quantity of EPR certificate producer may purchase wrt cu and Al will be
Xcu -nxcu+0.05xcu+y and xal-nxal + 0.5xal +y
Y- any leftover liability.
In case a producer purchases an EPR certificate for less than the EPR obligation wrt gold
Xau-nxau where xau is EPR obligation in terms of gold, xcu is EPR obligation in terms of
copper, xal is EPR obligation in terms of aluminium and n= % deficit quantity of obligation
in the form of gold. the producer has two options
The producer may o[pt to increase epr liability for gold by nxau kg in the next fy for that particular EEE item
EPR obligation will be treated as complete if the quantity of EPR certificate purchased wrt cu and al for current f/y are -
Xcu + nxcu and xa + nxal
The maximum quantity of EPR certificate producer may purchase wrt cu and al will be
Xcu + nxcu +.05xcu +y and xal + nxal +.05 xal + y
Y - any leftover liability.
Under the framework for the generation of EPR certificates EPR obligations wrt gold have
been reduced only for producers. however, recyclers can obtain gold from e-waste as
required to do optimal recycling for gold and provide gold credits to the producers.
A recycler is required to maintain the record of other materials also for mass balance.
the information about other materials to be furnished when filing the return.
The E-waste EPR portal is accepting data wrt e- waste processed from 1 April 2023 and
credit on the same is also getting generated accordingly.
CPCB issued notice on 15 .06. 2023 stating that recyclers are required to generate an EPR certificate through the EPR portal.
In the case of e-waste purchased from the formal sector, the recycler is required to
upload the sales invoice of the seller. in case e-waste is purchased from the informal
sector, the recycler is required to upload any sales receipt or any sales receipt having the
name and address of the seller.
A recycler is required to collect full equipment for recycling collection of the entire
equipment will ensure its recycling in a proper scientific manner. collection of
parts/spares will lead to the recycling of only those spares/components while the
remaining parts/components may remain unrecycled or go to the informal sector. In case
a recycler does not have a facility for recycling all the material then the same may be
given to another registered recycler having a facility for its recycling and maintain data wrt
same.
Yes, it is mandatory to mention commodity weight in the seller invoice issued to the recycler
at the time of purchase of e-waste.
GST-linked sales Invoice is mandatory to verify the proof of selling the recycled metals
[ end product ]
Grant or renewal of epr registration processing fees for producers seeking epr registration under e- waste management rule 2022.
Annual e-waste recycling target [ MT] proposed charge
< 50 mt - 2500
50 mt to < 100 mt - 7500
100 mt to < 1000mt - 1,50,000
1000mt to 5000mt - 15,00,000
b. For producers whose sales just started, the processing fee will be Rs 10,000
c. amendments in existing EPR registration in terms of addition of EEE items, revision in the recycling target, conversion from EPR Authorization [ producer granted EPR authorization / renewed EPR authorization in online mode to EPR registration the processing fee will be Rs 10,000/-.
The fee structure for registration of recycler, refurbisher & manufacturer and annual maintenance charges for all stakeholders for registration on the EPR portal under e- waste management rules 2022.
a.New recycler [ 1 time registration valid for 5 years ] - Rs 15000
b.Renewal of registration [ after 5 years ] - Rs 7500 + Rs 0.625 / mt for quantity of
EPR certificate transaction in the
preceding five years.
c.in case of any amendments/addendum - Rs 3000
a.newrefurbisher [1-time registration -valid for 5 years ] - 15,000
b. Renewal of registration [ after 5 years ] - 7500 + 0,625/mt for the quantity of
refurbishing certificate transactions
in the preceding five years.
c.in case of any amendment /addendum - 3000
One-time registration - 15,000
Annual maintenance charges for all stakeholders
Annual maintenance charges for producers, recyclers, and refurbishers - 5,000
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