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Implementation of ITU-T international standards for sustainable management of waste
electrical and electronic equipment: The path to a circular economy in Costa Rica

This information served as the basis for structuring the surveys of managers and importers
explained in section 3.4.1. It is also an important input for analysing material flows, weaknesses
in the management systems, and improvement opportunities. With regard to Figure 18, it is
important to point out that importers and final consumers are groups made up of natural and
legal persons.
The List of classes, types, and nature of legal certificates (National Registry, 2015) and the
information of the Costa Rican Public Sector and its organization (Ministry of National Planning
and Economic Policy, 2010), allow natural or legal persons included in the classification to
be sorted by their nature, establishing their relationship with the material flow, as shown in
Figure 18.

Figure 18 - Classification of natural and legal persons in public and private sectors
and their relationship with material flows

As shown in Figure 18, not all importers are traders; there are importers (natural or legal persons)
who import EEE for their own use. Another role in the management framework is that of the

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