Producer

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„Producer” in accordance with article 7 point 13 of the Law on the Management of Electrical and Electronic Equipment and Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Official Journal of RNM No. 176/21) is any legal or natural person who, regardless of the method of sale, including the sale by means of distance communication in accordance with the regulations governing consumer protection:
• is established in the Republic of North Macedonia and produces equipment under its own name or trademark or designs or produces the equipment and sells it under its own name or trademark in the territory of the Republic of North Macedonia;
• has its headquarters in the Republic of North Macedonia and resells in the territory of the Republic of North Macedonia, under its own name or trademark, equipment produced by another producer, with the reseller not being considered a producer if the brand of the original producer is indicated on the equipment;
• has its headquarters in the Republic of North Macedonia and, due to the performance of its activity, imports equipment for the purpose of placing it on the market in the Republic of North Macedonia or exports equipment outside of it. A producer who, as an end user, imported equipment for his own needs without an intermediary, as well as a legal or physical person who imports used equipment and puts it on the market in the Republic of North Macedonia, will be considered as a producer.
• is established in another country and sells equipment via distance communication directly to households or other users other than households in the Republic of North Macedonia.
A producer shall not be deemed to be a person who provides only financial support under or pursuant to any financial arrangement unless he is acting as a producer within the meaning of the foregoing.
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Legal obligations of Producer

Producers who for the first time put on the market or import as end users equipment for their own needs in the Republic of North Macedonia, are obliged to register with the State administration body responsible for performing professional work in the field of the environment.
Registration is performed by submitting a registration request, by the producer to the State administration body.
The producer of the equipment and the producer of materials and component parts of the equipment are obliged to take measures and activities during the planning, design and production of the equipment to ensure: reduction of the use of hazardous substances, easier disassembly and dismantling, reuse, recycling or otherwise processing of waste equipment, its components and incorporated materials;
The producer is obliged to provide, in a visible place, a clearly visible, legible and indelibly displayed mark for the obligation to separately collect the waste equipment;
The producer is obliged to take care of the waste generated after using the product;
The producer is obliged to provide and organize a system for the collection of waste equipment from households, where the return reception and collection of waste equipment from households is carried out in such a way that the end users and the trader who collects the waste equipment from households will return it free of charge for the purpose of further processing and achieving collection goals and waste equipment processing goals;
The producer is obliged to cooperate with the trader in whose premises the products that he has put on the market are placed in order to take joint measures aimed at encouraging the collection of waste products from end users, as well as to provide equipment for the separate collection of waste that is created from the products, for the purpose of their reuse, processing or recycling of the special waste stream and thereby achieving the national targets;
To achieve the national targets, the producer independently or through the collective scheme is obliged to cooperate with municipalities, the municipalities in the city of Skopje and the City of Skopje and the regional waste management centers in order to undertake joint measures aimed at encouraging the separate collection of waste products, as well as to establish collection centers and other infrastructure for the separate collection of waste products for the purpose of reuse, processing and recycling of waste electric and electronic equipment;

Categories of electric и electronic equipment to which the obligations of the producers refer:

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Category 1
Temperature exchange equipment
Category 2
Screens, monitors and equipment containing screens with an area greater than 100 cm2
Category 3
Lamps
Category 4
Large equipment (any equipment with an external dimension more than 50 cm). This category does not cover equipment included in Categories 1, 2 and 3.
Category 5
Small equipment (any equipment with no external dimension more than 50 cm). This category does not include equipment included in categories 1, 2, 3 and 6.
Category 6
Small IT and telecommunication equipment (any equipment with no external dimension more than 50 cm).

TYPES OF EQUIPMENT FALLING IN THE CORRESPONDING CATEGORY

Category 1
refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, heat pumps





Category 2
Screens, TVs, LCD photo frames, monitors, laptops, notebooks, tablets, e-books/e-readers




Category 3
Flat fluorescent lamps, compact fluorescent lamps, fluorescent lamps, high intensity discharge lamps - including pressurized sodium lamps and metal halide lamps, low pressure sodium lamps, LED lamps.
Category 4
household appliances, ICT and telecommunications equipment, consumer equipment, lighting equipment, sound or image reproducing equipment, musical equipment, electrical and electronic tools, toys, sports and recreation equipment, medical devices, monitoring and control instruments , automatic dispensers, equipment for production of electric currents, photovoltaic panels). This category does not include equipment included in Categories 1, 2 and 3.
Category 5
small household appliances, consumer appliances, lighting equipment, sound or image reproducing equipment, musical equipment, electrical and electronic tools, toys, sports and recreation equipment, medical devices, monitoring and control instruments, automatic dispensers, manufacturing equipment of electric currents). This category does not include equipment included in Categories 1,2,3 and 6.


Category 6
Mobile phones (smartphones, tablets, etc.), GPS and navigation equipment, pocket calculators, routers, personal computers, printers, telephones.








TYPES OF EQUIPMENT THAT DOES NOT FALL INTO THE CORRESPONDING CATEGORY:

Category 1
Ventilation equipment (e.g. fan, hot air fan, fan coils, etc.), infrared equipment, or water radiators and in general all equipment that uses water without additives or coolants for temperature exchange






Category 2
a) Small ICT equipment, such as mobile phones (smartphones, tablets, etc.), GPS and navigation equipment, pocket calculators, telephones, etc. (as E-equipment are distributed in category 6). b) E-equipment that may contain screens with surfaces larger than 100 cm2, such as e.g. some refrigerators, ATMs, body care equipment, industrial machinery, medical devices, printers, photocopiers, etc


Category 3
Devices which distributes, filters or transforms the light transmitted by one or more lamps and which includes all parts necessary to support, fix and protect the lamps and, where necessary, auxiliary electrical circuits together with means of connection to the electrical supply. Luminaires are allocated to category 4 or 5. Luminaires with integrated light sources (which cannot be removed without damaging the unit) are considered as lamps
Category 4
Refrigerated machines (category 1), large screens (category 2), large lamps (long fluorescent tubes) (category 3), etc.



Category 5
Small ICT equipment with an external dimension of less than 50 cm (mobile phones such as smartphones, tablets, etc.), routers, printers, GPS and navigation equipment, etc.) is allocated to category 6.
Category 6
Small non-IT equipment and telecommunications equipment (e.g. mp players, etc.), large IT equipment (large printers) and IT equipment with screens larger than 100 cm2 (laptops, tablets, eBook-/e-Readers, etc.) which are in category 2.