WEEE Product marking, what and by when?

Finished EEE products "put on the market" after 13th August 2005 for the first time in any Member State must be marked with:

• Crossed-out wheeled bin
• Unique producer identification (brand name, trade mark, company registration number or any other suitable means of identification etc)
• Instructions for recycling and disassembly (if necessary).

The standard applies to both household and non-household WEEE.

Crossed-out wheeled bin: Article 10.3 of the WEEE Directive requires Member States to ensure that producers appropriately mark electrical and electronic equipment put on the market after 13 August 2005 with the symbol shown in Annex IV (the crossed-out wheeled bin). “In exceptional cases, where this is necessary because of the size or the function of the product, the symbol shall be printed on the packaging, on the instructions for use and on the warranty of the electrical and electronic equipment.”

Annex IV: The symbol indicating separate collection for electrical and electronic equipment consists of the crossed-out wheeled bin, as shown below. This symbol must be printed “visibly, legibly and indelibly.”


For the marking of ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT in accordance with the article 10(3) of Directive 2002/96/EC (WEEE); you can buy the standard -ISEN50419- from the –

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Producer identification (brand name, trade mark, company registration number or any other suitable means of identification etc)

Article 11.2 of the WEEE Directive requires that Member States shall ensure that any producer of EEE put on the market after 13 August 2005 is clearly identifiable by a mark on the appliance. Furthermore, in order to enable the date upon which the appliance was put on the market to be determined unequivocally, a mark on the appliance shall specify that the latter was put on the market after 13 August 2005. The Commission shall promote the preparation of European Standards for this purpose.

The standard says that to identify the producer and the equipment put on the market after 13 August 2005, the following shall be applied to the product:

• a unique identification of the producer (a brand name, trademark, company registration number or any other suitable means of identification)
• the date of manufacture or date put on the market, either in uncoded text or in coded text for which the code is made available to treatment facilities, and/or an additional mark used in conjunction with the crossed-out wheeled bin symbol. This additional mark is a solid bar, containing no text or other information, which appears below the bin symbol and whose dimensions are specified in the standard.

If size or other characteristics such as functionality of the product means that the marking cannot be applied on the product it shall appear on a flag on the fixed supply cord or in the operating instructions and warranty certificates included with the product.