Executive Yuan Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) promulgated “Recyclable Waste Auditing and Certification Regulation” based on the Article 18, paragraph 2 of “Waste Disposal Act”. EPA Recycling Fund Management Committee is in accordance with the audited and certificated amount by auditing and certification group to subsidy the subsidized organizations. TUV Reinland Taiwan Ltd. (TUV Reinland) was entrusted by Taiwan EPA to implement the project “ The Third-party Auditing and Certification on Obligated Recyclable Waste Electronic and Electric Appliances (HA)& Information Technology (IT) Equipments ”, from April 01, 2007 to Mar 31, 2008. 14 subsidized organizations were audited and certificated during this period. The certificated amount of HA equipment were 1,653,067 sets including 601,479 sets of TVs, 308,970 sets of washing machine, 331,126 sets of refrigerator, 393,108 sets of conditioners and 18,384 sets of electric funs. The certificated amount of IT equipment were 2,607,740sets including 1,048,325 sets of main stations, 766,979 sets of monitors, 700,579 sets of printers, 31,069 sets of notebooks and 60,788 sets of keyboards. TUV Reinland auditing and certification team found 2,691 sets of unaccepted IT equipment and 5,403 sets of unaccepted HA equipment. Prevented to over subsidy of 489,385 NT dollars of IT equipment and 2,716,101 NT dollars of HA equipment from Management Committee’s issuance to subsidized organizations. It was positive for waste recycling auditing and certification system. TUV Reinland executed 168 times of accounting audit and inventory check, 168 times of environment-safety-health audit, 3,433 times of facility check and 52,752 hours of CCTV monitoring check in the project. 64 major deviation and abnormal events were found during this period. TUV Reinland reported the deviation and events to EPA and also provided the concrete solutions to subsidized organizations. TUV Reinland also proposed several programs to EPA for enhancing the auditing and certification efficiency. TUV Reinland also supported EPA on other related areas: (1) On-site audit for qualification review of new recycling plant. (2) TUV Reinland recommend into EPA for future operation manual developing. (3) Developed program of efficient management on recycling plant. (4) Support EPA to conduct “EPA Cleaning House Project” (5) To establish a noncompliance handbook for IT/HA product. (6) Investigation on reason and quantity of noncompliance product. (7) Auditing on the percentage analysis of hazardous waste generation.

Waste Electronic and Electric Appliances , Waste Information Technology, Third-party of Auditing and Certification, Collected amount / treated amount