Austria

Under the Austrian Ordinance on Waste Prevention, Collection and Treatment of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE Ordinance) that came into force on August 13th 2005, for equipment that you buy from TE after August 13th 2005, TE is required to provide arrangements for the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of WEEE that your new purchase replaces, on a one-for-one, like-for-like basis. The old equipment that your new purchase from TE replaces is referred to as Historic WEEE. 

Under the WEEE Ordinance, TE is also required to provide arrangements for the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of any electrical and electronic equipment that you buy from TE after August 13th 2005 when that equipment eventually becomes waste. This is referred to as New WEEE.