This E-Waste EPR Portal is an on-line E-Waste Management System, where applicant producers can apply on-line for grant of Registration Certificate and Recycling Targets/EPR obligation. All the stakeholders like Producer, Recyclers and Refurbishes and Manufacturers are required to register themselves on this system
EPR is defined as ‘an environmental policy approach in which a producer’s responsibility, physical and/ or financial, for a product, is extended to the post-consumer stage of a product’s life cycle.
(1)Shifting of responsibility upstream towards the producer and away from municipalities
(2)Providing incentives to producers to include environmental considerations in their product design, such as
a) reducing material consumption,
b)using more secondary material,
c)promoting product eco-design
‘Business’ means manufacturing, production, assembling, and import of electrical and electronic equipment as listed in Schedule I and refurbishing, recycling, disposal and treatment of e-waste;
Component means one of the parts of a sub-assembly or assembly of which a manufactured product is made up and into which it may be resolved and includes an accessory or attachment to another component.
‘Consumables’ means an item, which participates in or is required for a manufacturing process or the functioning of the electrical and electronic equipment and may or may not form part of 22 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA: EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SEC. 3(I)] end-product and Items which are substantially or consumed during a manufacturing process shall be deemed to be consumables;
Bulk Consumer means any entity which has used at least one thousand units of electrical and electronic equipment listed in Schedule I, at any point of time in the particular Financial Year and includes e-retailer.
‘Dismantler’ means any person or entity engaged in dismantling used electrical and electronic equipment into their components and having authorization from the concerned State Pollution Control Board or Pollution Control Committee as per the guidelines of the Central Pollution Control Board
‘end-of-life’ of the product means the time when the product is intended to be discarded by the user
‘e-retailer’ means an individual company or business entity that uses an electronic network such as the internet, social media, telephone or any other media, to sell its goods;
‘Manufacturer’ means a person or an entity or a company as defined in the Companies Act, 2013(18 of 2013) a factory as defined in the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), or Small medium Enterprises as defined in the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 (27 of 2006), which have facilities for the manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment as specified in Schedule-I;
‘Producer’ means any person or entity who, –
(i) manufactures and offers to sell electrical and electronic equipment and their components or consumables or parts or spares under its brand; or
(ii) offers to sell under its brand-assembled electrical and electronic equipment and their components or consumables or parts or spares produced by other manufacturers or suppliers
(iii) offers to sell imported electrical and electronic equipment and their components or consumables or parts or spares; or
(iv) who imports used electrical and electronic equipment; irrespective of the selling technique used such as dealer, retailer, e-retailer, etc.;
The producer of electrical and electronic equipment listed in schedule I shall be responsible for –
All manufacturers shall have to, –
(1) register on the portal;
(2) collect e-waste generated during the manufacture of any electrical and electronic equipment and ensure its recycling or disposal;
(3) file annual and quarterly returns in the laid down form on the portal on or before the end of the month succeeding the quarter or year, as the case may be, to which the return relates.
All refurbishers shall have to, –
(1) register on the portal;
(2) collect e-waste generated during the process of refurbishing and hand over the waste to the registered recycler and upload information on the portal;
(3) ensure that the refurbished equipment shall be as per the Compulsory Registration Scheme of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and Standards of Bureau of Indian standards framed for this purpose;
(4) file annual and quarterly returns in the laid down form on the portal on or before the end of the month succeeding the quarter or year, as the case may be, to which the return relates.
Bulk consumers of electrical and electronic equipment listed in Schedule I shall ensure that e-waste generated by them shall be handed over only to the registered producer, refurbished, or recycler.
Extended Producer Responsibility targets producers, who have started sales operations recently, i.e. number of years of sales operations is less than the average life of their products mentioned in the guidelines issued by the Central Pollution Control Board from time to time.
Note: (1) Once the number of years of sales operation equals the average life of the product mentioned in the guidelines issued by the Central Pollution Control Board, their extended producer responsibility obligation shall be as per Schedule III.
(2) E-waste recycling targets shall not be applicable for waste generated from solar photo-voltaic modules panels or cells.
1. PAN, GST, CIN of the Company
2. Aadhar, PAN of Authorized person (Scanned Copies)
3. Scanned copy containing details of products (type and quantity) produced/marketed.
4. Covering letter in PDF format
5. Scanned copy of signatures of authorized persons in png, jpeg, jpg.
6. Additional Document (if any)
7. Sales record
8. EPR Plan
**Points to remember**
•Legal Name, Trade name, Type of business: As appearing on the GST Certificate
•PAN: To be issued in the Legal name of the Entity
•CIN: To be provided by Pvt/Public/ LPP firms registered under the Company Act
•GST: Combined GST of all States /UTs in which the Entity is operational
•IEC: To be provided for importers
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