Management Services

Focus on your core business
As a producer, rebrander or importer many questions regarding WEEE will arise:

• Check the legislation?
• Are we affected by the WEEE legislation?
• Where do we register?
• How do we register?
• Who takes care of the logistics?
• Who will recycle?
• Can we trust this recycler?
• Are we compliant?
• How to report?
• Who will be responsible in my organization?

These are some of the questions your organization will face. And they have to be answered separately for all EU member states. On a continuous base. Not only when you start with necessary activities regarding WEEE legislation. When contracts are expiring. Or when legislation is changing. WEEE business is daily business.

WEEE business is EARNs business.
Our services can be used separately. Or you can fully outsource all activities, from registration, reverse logistics to recycling or refurbishment. In that way you ensure that your organization is compliant and it enables you to focus on your core business.

Single point of contact
Whether your obligations apply to one country, or all EU Member States: all activities are centrally coordinated by EARN. Receiving your pick-up requests, planning the pick-up, informing our local recycler, getting the weigh bills, and finally invoicing our customer: one location, a single point of contact, one telephone number, one e-mail address.

EARN has representatives in all EU member states in case you prefer to have a local (native speaking) contact .

Advantages of central coordination:

• Management on an European scale
• Central management system for order processing, reporting and invoicing
• Statistics for customers via data warehousing
• Capability of customising the system to special needs
• Order fulfilment can be tracked on a country-by-country as well as on a European basis
• Automatic measurement of following KPI’s: time to call back, time to pick-up, time to order completion, any incidents
• Recommendation of compliance system (if required by national law)
• Receipt of pick-up call for WEEE material
• All EARN service partners are willing to stop the process at any point for an agreed period of time for compliance tests by the customer

Where your obligation starts…
Under WEEE legislation, EEE products supplied to the market in a European Member State have to be registered by the producer, rebrander or importer.

Registration issues to be considered:

• What is the definition of B2C (business to Consumer) or B2B(Business to Business) markets per country?
• Are a legal entity and a VAT number mandatory in a country?
• Do you need a local bank account or a financial guarantee in the country where you sell EEE?
• Where do you have to show a visible fee?

Sound Knowledge
These and further issues have to be clarified country-by-country and product-by-product. And sometimes this should happen via an obligatory compliance scheme. EARN has sound knowledge of the different procedures and knows which parties to contact . In other words, we know how and where to register in every country. Our dedicated staff centrally coordinates registration.
 
EARN mainly offers WEEE registration. Additionally we offer registration for 2 waste flows that are connected to WEEE: batteries and packaging.
 
Benefits:

• Central coordinated registration
• Registration at national clearing houses
• For producers and importers
• Yearly fee per country per entity or lump sum
• No risks: compliance guaranteed

EARN takes care of your evidence
Compliance requires evidence. You have to proof you fulfilled your legal obligations to the local government. This is a time consuming matter that EARN gladly carries out. All information coming from you, our recycling plants, our logistics partners and other entities is centrally stored and processed into consistent reports. You will receive these reports in the frequency conform your and the legal requirements.

Standard reports contain:

• put on the market
• pick-up place
• product group
• treatment facility
• weight in – out
• recycling and recovery rates

Reporting to clearing houses:

• Frequent reporting of sold products
• Frequent reporting of treated volumes
• Frequent reporting of achieved recycling and recovery targets