Austria
Overview of introduced and upcoming mandatory waste fees for foreign sellers in Austria.
EPR in Austria
The Austrian Waste Management Act (Abfallwirtschaftsgesetz) or AWG stipulates that a manufacturer or distributor who puts packaging material, electrical, electronic equipment (EEE), batteries or accumulators into circulation in Austria is obliged to report this packaging and collect a fee from it.
Lamps, refrigerators, air conditioners, monitors, washing machines, etc. are all within the scope of recycling under the DEEE Act
It includes all packaging materials of consumables or household products
Alkaline batteries, dry batteries, disposable lithium batteries, button batteries, NI-MH batteries, lithium-ion batteries and other batteries covered by the Battery Act
From 2023
From 1 January 2023, the following mandatory waste fees for foreign sellers in Austria were introduced:
- Packaging
- Electronics
- Batteries
- 01/01/2023
- 01/01/2023
- 01/01/2023
From 2023
From 1 January 2023, the following mandatory waste fees for foreign sellers in Austria were introduced:
- Packaging:
- 01/01/2023
- Electronics:
- 01/01/2023
- Batteries:
- 01/01/2023
