Environment Agency: WEEE Treatment Facility Approval

We use some essential cookies to make this website work. We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services. We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services. You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time. You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time. Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility and how to operate legally under the approval. Get emails about this page Print this page You can apply for additional approval to become an approved authorised treatment facility ( AATF ) if: AATFs can issue evidence notes for reuse and treatment on the UK WEEE they receive on behalf of producer compliance schemes ( PCSs ). This WEEE is known as ‘obligated WEEE ’. See the detail in the WEEE evidence and national protocols guidance . To apply for approval you must: Approvals cover the period from 1 January to 31 December. You can apply for approval at any time in the year, but you need to apply at least 12 weeks before you want the approval to start. This is to give the regulator enough time to make a decision. If you want your approval to start on 1 January, you must apply by 30 September in the previous year. If you apply and get an approval part way through a year, it will still end on 31 December that year. If you operate more than one ATF , you must apply for approval and pay the application fee for each site. There is a charge for applying to be an AATF for WEEE . If you are a small AATF and issue evidence for more than 400 tonnes of WEEE during a compliance year, you must pay the balance of the higher charge to the relevant environmental regulator within 28 days. If your application is refused, your payment will not be refunded. To find out what you need to pay for AATFs in England, check Part 2 of the Waste (Miscellaneous) (England) Charging Scheme 2018 . The charge in Section 10 (1) is for AATFs that intend to issue evidence notes for no more than 400 tonnes of WEEE during the approval period. The charge in Section 10 (2) is for AAFTs that intend to issue evidence notes for more than 400 tonnes of WEEE during the approval period. electronic transfer (BACS), make the payment when you complete the online form – you’ll be asked to enter a payment reference number in the application credit or debit card, select this option in the application and a member of the team will contact you after they receive your application, to take the payment Contact the team before you start your application if you cannot pay by BACS, debit card or credit card. For AATF charges in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, contact your environmental regulator. You can pay your fee to those regulators by: debit card or credit card (using Quickpay), or BACS to the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency BACS to Natural Resources Wales and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency Contact the relevant regulator before you start your application if you cannot pay by these methods. In your application you need to upload: Have the following information ready when you begin the application: for corporate bodies, your company registration number and your company registration document for partnerships, a document showing evidence of the partnership your AATF approval number, broker registration number and waste carrier registration number, if relevant details of any environmental permits details of any registered exemptions In the application form, you’ll be asked to upload your sampling and inspection plan. This must include details of how you determine: Your plan must also include details about: any local (site‐based) or nationally agreed protocols you use and the audit systems you use to make sure that evidence notes are issued correctly whether you accept self-clearing WEEE from a local authority DCF and, if so, which local authority DCF and the collection str