Exemptions for electrical and electronic equipment

Electrical and electronic accessories purchased and installed in motor-driven vehicles, boats, airplanes and trains such as GPS units, external CD player, navigation equipment, echosounders and screen, refrigeration equipment, radio and sound equipment, however, are not exempt, as such equipment is not an integral part of the vehicle at the time of construction/production.

Note! Waste electronics removed from motor vehicles etc. are managed according to the general rules on management of waste electronics.

Batteries and accumulators are exempt from the WEEE Order, as they are covered by producer responsibility as defined in the Battery Order. Batteries and accumulators are however not exempt from the WEEE Order’s rules on environmental treatment in the event that they are incorporated in waste electrical and electronic equipment or products.

Equipment manufactured specifically for military purposes and associated with either protection of national security, arms, munitions, or war material are subject to an exemption. Examples of exempt equipment are also monitoring equipment manufactured specifically for the Danish Defence Intelligence Service or the Danish Security and Intelligence Service in the form of equipment with integrated monitoring equipment, where these Services do not want the public to have access to the design of the equipment. Equipment, however, that is also available to the public is not covered by this exemption criterion, since it is not intended specifically for military purposes. An example of such equipment may be a radar used in both civil airports and military facilities. Camouflage-colouring of the equipment does not motivate an exemption in itself.

Purpose: To exclude equipment that is never expected to return to earth. Examples: Rockets and satellites. Control and monitoring equipment, etc., which are controlled from the ground, are not covered by this exception.

Large-scale stationary industrial tools are the following: Large-scale machines and systems that are not planned to be sold as one independent unit or commercial units. Large-scale machines or systems consisting of a combination of equipment, systems, finished products and/or components that each is designed exclusively for industrial use, is permanently assembled by a professional assembler at a given place, in industrial machinery or an industrial building to perform a specific task. Examples of this are oil/gas platforms, baggage handling systems in airports, built-in lifts.

“Medical devices” may be covered by the exemption criterion “Implanted and infected products”.  Infected equipment is single-use electrical or electronic equipment manufactured for ending its useful life as health-care risk waste and as such being hazardous waste under the Statutory Order on Waste. This may be, for example, a pacemaker or electrodes and probes for single-use purposes.

Certain specific means of transportation are also exempted under certain conditions.

This exemption is aimed to exempt professional equipment initially developed in one or few copies and with one specific purpose in connection with research or development and where at the given time the equipment is not a commercial product or placed on the market to a broader range of customers. Thereby, this equipment only exists at a pre-production stage. In other words, it is a prototype of products or equipment assembled for different forms of development tests.

If it incorporates standard equipment that is also used in non-research and development environments this equipment is not covered by the exemption.