Recital 13

(13) Cooling and freezing appliances rely heavily on fluorinated greenhouse gases for their proper functioning, and they represent one of the most relevant categories in the waste management of electrical and electronic equipment. In line with the polluter pays principle and to ensure proper waste management regarding those harmful gases, it is important that obligations relating to the extended responsibility for producers in the case of waste electrical and electronic equipment also cover the management of the fluorinated greenhouse gases contained or used in waste electrical and electronic equipment. Directive 2012/19/EU sets out financing obligations on producers of electrical and electronic equipment. This Regulation complements that Directive by requiring the financing of the collection, treatment, recovery, environmentally sound disposal, recycling, reclamation or destruction of fluorinated greenhouse gases listed in Annexes I and II to this Regulation from the products and equipment, containing those gases or whose functioning relies upon those gases, and which constitutes waste electrical and electronic equipment.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.