WEEELABEX (‘WEEE label of excellence’) is the acronym of a project (2009-12) co-financed by LIFE, the environmental programme of the European Community (LIFE07 ENV/B/000041), with a budget of €1.064.600.

It was a multi-stakeholder project run by the WEEE Forum in co-operation with stakeholders from the producers’ community and processing industry. It started in 2009; the launch of the WEEELABEX organisation, created on 17 April 2013 in Prague, is the culmination of the project.


The objectives of the Project were two-fold. One was to design a set of standards with respect to the collection, sorting, storage, transportation, preparation for re-use, treatment, processing and disposal of all kinds of WEEE. The other objective was to put in place a process of monitoring of companies through audits conducted by auditors trained by its Office. Successful audits will result in operators, processes being listed on a publicly accessible WEEELABEX website. This procedure, whereby processes are audited and listed, is referred to as 'Conformity Verification' (CV). Therefore, apart from the standards and the start-up of the new organisation, the project has also resulted in proprietary audit process documents and reporting templates

CECED has been actively involved in the development of the project since 2009 and continues to be a stakeholder in the work of the new WEELABEX organisation.

More details about WEEELABEX can be accessed online: http://www.weeelabex.org/