Almost all the EU's 27 member states have rejected plans to set a 65 per cent collection target for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) under a proposal to recast the existing directive, the Environment Council will hear on Friday morning (see revised agenda below).rnA Spanish Presidency progress report to the 11 June Council will say that the proposal to set the target for separate collection of WEEE at 65 per cent (total weight of WEEE collected in a given year expressed as a percentage of the average weight of EEE placed on the market in the three preceding years) to be achieved annually from 2016 "is questioned by a great majority of delegations."rnThe report says that 14 delegations find the collection target "too ambitious and not sufficiently realistic." As an alternative, some delegations have suggested that member states could achieve this target gradually by, for example, reaching 35-50 per cent in 2016 and 65 per cent in 2020.
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