Solar Panel Producer Compliance in the UK

Solar panels are electrical equipment. If your business imports photovoltaic modules, brands them as your own, or sells them directly to UK customers from overseas, you are a WEEE producer and you have legal obligations from the first panel you place on the market. WERCS is an approved producer compliance scheme, approval number WEE/KP3638PZ/SCH, and we treat solar panels at our own approved facility rather than passing them to a third party.

Approved scheme WEE/KP3638PZ/SCH

Part of a Certified B Corporation

Our own treatment facility

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Certified B Corporation

Independently verified environmental and social performance

AATF WEE/ME0006ZT/ATF

Our own approved authorised treatment facility

WEE/KP3638PZ/SCH

Environment Agency approved compliance scheme

25 years, 150+ members

Supporting UK producers since the regulations began

solar panel producer compliance: what applies to you

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Register before you sell

Producer obligations start at the point you place panels on the UK market, not when they reach end of life. Registration is backdated, so late registration means retrospective reporting.

Report in the right category

Photovoltaic panels sit in their own reporting line within the large equipment category. Reporting them alongside general electrical goods is a common and visible error.

Fund end-of-life treatment

Panels installed today will need recovery in twenty to thirty years. Your obligation is calculated on what you place on the market now, regardless of when it returns.

Evidence your route

Developers, funders and asset owners increasingly ask suppliers to show where panels go at end of life. A documented treatment route is becoming a commercial requirement.

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Key dates to watch

Compliance that closes the loop

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You report

We check your categories and tonnages before submission, so your data is right first time.

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We collect

Collections on our own monitored fleet, with Duty of Care paperwork handled throughout.

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We treat

Treated at our own AATF in Kirkheaton rather than passed to a third party for evidence.

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You can prove it

A documented route and carbon savings reported back, ready for an auditor or a customer.

Compliance is the floor, not the ceiling

Meeting your obligation is a legal minimum. Being able to evidence where your equipment went, and what it saved, is what customers, investors and ESG reporting increasingly ask for.

1,600+

Tonnes of CO2 saved each year through our recycling

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WEEE categories treated at our own facility

100%

Traceable route from collection to treatment

B Corp

Verified social and environmental performance

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Straightforward compliance, without the complexity.

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WERCS is an approved WEEE Producer Compliance Scheme, approval number WEE/KP3638PZ/SCH, and part of the Waste Experts group, a Certified B Corporation operating AATF permit WEE/ME0006ZT/ATF.