Parliamentary search - WEEE Directive

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Parliamentary proceeding

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462 c370-89WH

Session

2006-07

Department

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2006
Tuesday, 12 December 2006
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House of Lords
House of Commons

Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the 2006 Environment Policy Review.
Sunday, 29 April 2007
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Proceeding contributions

Nigel Evans | 462 c374-5WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Southport (Dr. Pugh) on securing this debate on a matter that is ...

Charles Hendry | 462 c375WH (Link to this contribution) Or telephones.

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Nigel Evans | 462 c375-6WH (Link to this contribution) We had telephones, but we did not have mobile phones. I am sure that my hon. Friend will want to spe...

David Drew | 462 c376WH (Link to this contribution) To be fair, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee considered both the waste electrical a...

Nigel Evans | 462 c377WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s advice. I am a carless person now. I tried to sell mine to a ...

Baroness Burt of Solihull | 462 c377WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Southport (Dr. Pugh) on securing this important debate....

John Pugh | 462 c377WH (Link to this contribution) The symbol is hard to spot on many goods. In preparation for this debate, I went round my house look...

Baroness Burt of Solihull | 462 c377-8WH (Link to this contribution) The symbol has to be seen before it can be misunderstood, so that is an important point. I turn to ...

Nigel Evans | 462 c378WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady think that it would be a good idea if all computers came with a disk that could w...

Baroness Burt of Solihull | 462 c378-9WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point, which ties in nicely with my next one. The whole point ...

Charles Hendry | 462 c383WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a valuable point. The manufacturers should undoubtedly consider that, because o...

Nigel Evans | 462 c383WH (Link to this contribution) Follow that!

Charles Hendry | 462 c379-82WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Southport (Dr. Pugh) on securing the debate and on the cons...

Nigel Evans | 462 c382-3WH (Link to this contribution) I have one additional point on mobile phones, which people renew regularly, and particularly on the ...

Malcolm Wicks | 462 c384-5WH (Link to this contribution) The regulations place obligations on all producers of electrical and electronic equipment to finance...

Baroness Burt of Solihull | 462 c385WH (Link to this contribution) I hope that before he leaves this subject, the Minister will address my point about article 8.2, whi...

Malcolm Wicks | 462 c383-4WH (Link to this contribution) I intend to follow that, but first, in the traditional way, I congratulate the hon. Member for South...

Speaker | 462 c384WH (Link to this contribution) You are very kind.

Malcolm Wicks | 462 c385-6WH (Link to this contribution) I come not to blame local authorities but to praise them. I am chasing up a couple of slow coaches, ...

John Pugh | 462 c386WH (Link to this contribution) On the reuse point, there can be genuine reuse and there can be warehousing or landfill disguised as...

Nigel Evans | 462 c387WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way on that point?

Malcolm Wicks | 462 c387WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, but may I just add this comment, which I believe the hon. Gentleman touched on? There is a sche...

Nigel Evans | 462 c387WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister talk to industry about plugs and interfaces because if there is a good technologic...

Malcolm Wicks | 462 c387WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed. Is the hon. Gentleman also calling for greater EU standardisation in relation to that?

Malcolm Wicks | 462 c386-7WH (Link to this contribution) We are discussing that important matter with the environment agencies. All I can do is assure the ho...

Baroness Burt of Solihull | 462 c388WH (Link to this contribution) The issue is at what point the return of a good, either because it is damaged or for no better reaso...

Nigel Evans | 462 c387WH (Link to this contribution) No.

Malcolm Wicks | 462 c387-8WH (Link to this contribution) That would be a consistency too far, even for the hon. Gentleman—albeit environment in one nation. I...

Nigel Evans | 462 c388WH (Link to this contribution) Llanidloes is the problem.

Malcolm Wicks | 462 c388WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for helping me to emphasise a rather poor joke. I am advised that the hon...

Malcolm Wicks | 462 c388-9WH (Link to this contribution) I will, of course, be happy to do that. I think that there is just one more point to cover, but we ...

David Wilshire | 462 c389WH (Link to this contribution) (in the Chair): Order. The sitting is suspended either until 12.30pm or until Mrs. Gilroy and the re...

John Pugh | 462 c373-4WH (Link to this contribution) That is a big problem, which I shall go on to highlight. There is a distinction between an authority...

Baroness Burt of Solihull | 462 c373WH (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that on the last count, 250 council recycling centres did not have a partner...

John Pugh | 462 c373WH (Link to this contribution) That is a big problem. In responding to that intervention, I should like to put on record the great ...

David Drew | 462 c373WH (Link to this contribution) To confirm what the hon. Gentleman says, on Saturday I was approached by a constituent who takes old...

John Pugh | 462 c370-2WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman anticipates my later comments. I think that probably every house in the country h...

Speaker | 462 c370WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Interventions should be brief.

Nigel Evans | 462 c370WH (Link to this contribution) One issue that the hon. Gentleman has not yet touched on is the digital switchover. There is a fear ...

John Pugh | 462 c370WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure, Mr. Taylor, to see you in such an obvious and deserved position of authority today...

Subjects

Electrical goods

Electronic equipment

EU action

Recycling

Waste management

Waste disposal

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