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Implementation of the ITU-T International Standards for the Sustainable Management of
Electrical and Electronic Equipment: On the road to a circular economy in Argentina

person, of current and future generations, to live in a healthy environment and to sustainable
development.

The Escazú Agreement aims to promote balanced public policies and, above all, to respect
the requirements of citizen participation and guaranteeing the rights, of vital importance for
the WEEE management, where the voices of various players guarantee proper management.

Provincial regulations

At the provincial level, the Province of Buenos Aires enacted in 2011 Act. 14.321, for the
sustainable management of WEEE. However, regulations have not yet been developed for
this Act, and although there is a registry of WEEE managers, it does not extend to private
generators, SMEs or public entities, these being medium and large companies, the main
contractors registered in the Provincial Agency for Sustainable Development (OPDS). In any
case, anticipating the National WEEE Management Act, the province of Buenos Aires, which
concentrates 40 per cent of the population and 50 per cent of the national GDP, adopted
Resolution OPDS 101/2010, with the objective of "promoting in the province of Buenos Aires
the management of waste electrical and electronic equipment, with the following priorities:
generation prevention, re-use, recycling, other forms of recovery and final disposal to protect
the environment".

It also defines Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) as out-of-use EEE and all
components, subassemblies, and consumable parts of the product at the time it is discarded.

Resolution 101/2011 has also been adopted in the Province of Buenos Aires, approving a
voluntary programme for the certification of sustainable management of waste electrical and
electronic equipment, to create a registry of electrical and electronic equipment producers.

At the national level, Resolution 522/16 on the National Strategy for the Sustainable
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Management of Special Waste of Universal Generation is available, WEEE as well as batteries
and portable rechargeable batteries are within its scope.

There are other Acts, Resolutions, and Programmes applicable in some provinces of the
Argentine Republic such as Act 9373 published in 2013 in La Rioja, designed as a recycling
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programme of waste electrical and electronic equipment, whose main objectives focus on
minimizing the waste generation stage, as well as the environmental impacts they cause, the
recovery of WEEE, the re-use and recycling of parts and components, and the obligation not
to dispose of WEEE as urban waste, among others.

20 Link to Resolution 522/16 on the National Strategy for the Sustainable Management of Special Waste of
Universal Generation: https:// www .argentina .gob .ar/ normativa/ nacional/ resoluci %C3 %B3n -522 -2016
-268583/ texto.
21 Link to Act 9373 on the Recycling Program of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment in La Rioja https://
legislaturalarioja .com/ legislacion/ ley -no -9 -373/ .

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