Producer responsibility should be based on the polluter pays principle: all costs for collection and recycling from the moment the consumer discards WEEE, including costs for municipal collection, should be integrated in the producer’s responsibility. If this condition is not met, it is unacceptable for local and regional authorities to have an obligatory give-back of WEEE to the producer responsibility organisations. A target for collection, combined with material-based recycling targets, can ensure more recycling. At the same time, Member States can be allowed to organise a policy based on local conditions through targets, linked with quantities put on the market. Current differences in nature between Member States cannot be ignored. Therefore, an approach in which the directive is based on Article 95 of the Treaty would be a breach of the principle of subsidiarity. Reuse is important and deserves a specific approach creating real incentives for high-quality reuse of appliances within Europe. We favour the conservation of a different approach for WEEE from users other than private households (B2B) as compared to WEEE from private households (B2C), with integration of the greyzone-products in the B2C schemes. The directive should create guarantees for sufficient transparency in the functioning of producer responsibility organisations, specifically in the use of finances and the allocation of recycling and treatment markets. The success factors for sound WEEE management do not lie in the existence of one or several schemes but rather in good side conditions set up in the legislative framework. We favour the integration of appropriate treatment standards and specifications in the directive.