The revised version of the 2012/19/EU Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment Directive (WEEE (recast)) was published in the official journal of the European Union on July 24, 2012. The revised version of the WEEE Directive will officially come into effect 20 days after the announcement. Each EU member state must turn it into domestic law before February 14, 2014. The relevant revisions are as follows: 1. Scope of control: The revised version of the WEEE Directive plans to reclassify electronic and electrical equipment into six categories (Annex 3) starting from August 15, 2018. During the transition period from August 13, 2012 to August 14, 2018, the product types and scope of its specifications remain the same as the original WEEE Directive. The revised WEEE Directive covers all types of electrical and electronic equipment (except for exclusive applications listed in Article 2 (3) and (4) of the Directive). In addition, a new item of solar panels has been added to Category 4 in Annex 2. 2. Sorted collection: Dealers should provide free sorted recycling for small electronic and electrical products (external dimensions not exceeding 25 cm) near the point of sale or in retail stores. In addition, consumers are not obliged to purchase the same type of electrical and electronic equipment. Allowed for recycling. 3. Collection Rate: Member states must meet a minimum collection rate every year. Four years from the year the new directive comes into effect, the minimum recycling rate will be 45%. After another three years, the total amount of electronic and electrical equipment sold on the market should reach 65%, or the domestic recycling of electronic and electrical equipment by members should reach 85%. 4. Recycle

On January 19, 2012, the European Parliament voted to pass the amendment to the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive). The European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers of the European Union reached an informal tripartite negotiation agreement on the new provisions of the directive amendment on December 20, 2011. After the revised directive is formally adopted by the Council, it will take effect on the day it is published in the EU's Official Journal and must be implemented in member states 18 months later. However, the transition period for some provisions will be longer. The revised directive contains the following main provisions: Scope: The revised WEEE directive covers all types of electrical and electronic equipment. Six years after the revised directive comes into effect, all electrical and electronic equipment must be classified into the six categories listed in Annex III (see Table 1 for details), except for items (a) to (g) below. During the six-year transition period (the classification principle is roughly the same as that of the pre-amended directive classification (10 categories, see Table 2 for details). Table 1. WEEE Amended Directive Specification EEE Category Category Category Annex 3 EEE Classification Category List 1 Temperature Equipment Refrigerators, Freezers, Air conditioning equipment, dehumidification equipment... 2 Screens, monitors and equipment with screens larger than 100 cm2, TVs, LCD photo frames, monitors, laptops... 3 Lighting equipment linear fluorescent tubes, small fluorescent tubes, fluorescent tubes Lamp tubes, low-pressure sodium lamp tubes, LED... 4 large equipment (any external dimension is greater than 50cm) washing machines, dishwashers, electric stoves, audio equipment, processing equipment for weaving, large

Taiwan – 06/03/12 The European Union completed the revised version of the WEEE Directive No. 02/2012. On December 20, 2011, the European Parliament and the European Council reached an agreement on waste treatment of electronic and electrical equipment (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive revised version of the agreement. This agreement was approved by the European Parliament on January 19, 2012. The main amendment is the calculation of the recycling ratio of waste electronic and electrical equipment. Before the proposed revision, the calculation method for recycling waste electronic and electrical equipment was 4kg per resident per year. This method will continue to be implemented within 4 years from the entry into force of the revised directive. But starting from the 5th year, in the next three years, the recycling ratio of waste electronic and electrical equipment will be calculated based on the weight of 45% of the electronic and electrical products put on the market. These seven years will be a transition period. After the transition period, EU member states will have the right to choose the method for calculating the recycling proportion of waste electronic and electrical equipment. The two options are: 65% for the weight of equipment put on the market or 85% for the weight of discarded equipment. In addition, according to Article 2 1(b) and Annex III, only Class 6 equipment will be included after the transition period instead of the original Class 10 equipment. The classification of these 10 categories of equipment will only apply for a transition period, with a so-called "open scope" introduced after 6 years