Austria

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General Information Organisation Facts & Figures Financing Legal Basis WEEE of Austria Address

Financing

Financing

The costs for the collection and recovery are covered by the license fees that ARA license partners pay to ARA for the reported packaging volumes they put on the market. The revenues are passed on by ARA to operative partners, disposal companies, and communal waste cooperatives.

The fees ARA license partners need to pay are based on the multiplication of the packaging quantities with the respective tariffs. The tariffs are annually calculated by the system operators of the ARA System according to the real costs for the collection, sorting, and recycling of each packaging material.

Due to continuous system improvement and efficiency enhancement, ARA and its partners within the ARA System have been able to reduce the tariffs from year to year, or, where no reductions were feasible, keep them stable.

Packaging material

Tariffs in € per kg (excl. VAT)

		as of July 1, 2011	as of Jan 1, 2012
1.1.	Sales packaging – paper, cardboard, corrugated board * (Refunding of heavy-duty-bags – turn page)	0.115	0.100
1.2.	Transport packaging – paper, cardboard, corrugated board	0.040	0.037
2.	Disposable glass packaging	0.071	0.071
3.	Wood	0.013	0.011
4.	Ceramics	0.170	0.140
5.1.	Ferrous metals small < 3 l	0.260	0.235
5.2.	Ferrous metals large ≥ 3 l and metal hoops	0.110	0.090
5.3.	Aluminium	0.420	0.380
6.	Textiles	0.265	0.200
7.0.	Plastics small * < 1.5 m² or < 0.15 kg, hollow bodies < 5 l, EPS < 0.1 kg, bags ≤ 10 l, net bags < 25 l, multipacks	0.620	0.590
7.1.	EPS (e. g. Styrofoam ®) ≥ 0.1 kg	0.190	0.190
8.	Composite materials (without beverage composite cartons)	0.600	0.580
9.	Industrial, commercial & large plastic packaging (IGP)
9.1.	Foils ≥ 1.5 m², Tray foils ≥ 0.25 m² (≥ 6 sales units – food, ≥ 3 sales units – non-food), Hoops, Adhesive tapes	0.105	0.100
9.2.	Hollow bodies ≥ 5 l, Bags > 10 l, Net bags ≥ 25 l, Cartridges, Moulded bodies ≥ 0.15 kg (without EPS)	0.105	0.100
10.	Packaging materials on a biological basis	0.450	0.450

* inclusive shopping bags

Examples:

Financing Part 2

	Country: Austria
	Example 1:
	can filled with corn
	Calculation of licence fees for 1 item (fees of 2012)

	packaging data per can:
	weight of tinplate: 45.63 gramm
	paper label: 2.55 gramm
	volume of can: 425 ml

	calculation of weight related fee:	Cent
	45.63 g x 23.50 Cent/kg of tinplate = 1.072305 Cent	1.072 Cent
	2.55 g x 10.00 Cent/kg of paper = 0.0255	0.026 Cent

	calculation of item fee:

	subtotal	1.098 Cent

	reduction quota	0
	subtotal net	1.098 Cent
	VAT 20 %	0.220 Cent
	grand total gross	1.318 Cent

	Country: Austria
	Example 2:
	cardboard box with plastic window for headset
	Calculation of licence fee for 1 item (fees of 2012)

	packaging data per box:
	weight of box: 106.8 gramm
	plastic window: 9.28 gramm
	15.5 cm x 22 cm x 7.7 cm = 2625.7 cm³

	calculation of weight related fee:	Cent
	106.8 g x 10.00 Cent/kg of paper = 1.068 Cent	1.068 Cent
	9.28 g x 59.00 Cent/kg of plastic = 0.54752 Cent	0.548 Cent

	calculation of item fee:

	subtotal	1.616 Cent

	reduction quota	0
	subtotal net	1.616 Cent
	VAT 20 %	0.323 Cent
	grand total gross	1.939 Cent