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Penalties, inspection and monitoring
National penalties and the minimum inspection regime.
Article 22 — Penalties
Verbatim from EUR-Lex (Directive 2012/19/EU (WEEE) 02012L0019-20240408), via the Publications Office Cellar API.
The Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of the national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive and shall take all measures necessary to ensure that they are implemented. The penalties provided for must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. The Member States shall notify those provisions to the Commission by 14 February 2014 at the latest and shall notify it without delay of any subsequent amendment affecting them.
Article 23 — Inspection and monitoring
Verbatim from EUR-Lex (Directive 2012/19/EU (WEEE) 02012L0019-20240408), via the Publications Office Cellar API.
1. Member States shall carry out appropriate inspections and monitoring to verify the proper implementation of this Directive.
Those inspections shall at least cover:
- (a) information reported in the framework of the register of producers;
- (b) shipments, in particular exports of WEEE outside the Union in compliance with Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 and Regulation (EC) No 1418/2007; and
- (c) the operations at treatment facilities in accordance with Directive 2008/98/EC and Annex VII of this Directive. 2. Member States shall ensure that shipments of used EEE suspected to be WEEE are carried out in accordance with the minimum requirements in Annex VI and shall monitor such shipments accordingly.
3. The costs of appropriate analyses and inspections, including storage costs, of used EEE suspected to be WEEE may be charged to the producers, to third parties acting on their behalf or to other persons arranging the shipment of used EEE suspected to be WEEE.
4. In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Article and of Annex VI, the Commission may adopt implementing acts establishing additional rules on inspections and monitoring and in particular uniform conditions for the implementation of Annex VI, point 2. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 21(2).
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