Environmental Management (Control and Management of Electrical and Electronic Equipment Waste) Regulations, 2021.

These Regulations consisting of 68 articles divided into IX Parts aim at providing for and promoting proper management of e-waste to protect human health and the environment while ensuring sustainable development. They apply to all categories of e-waste concerning generation, collection, storage, transportation, importation, exportation, distribution, selling, purchasing, recycling, refurbishing, assembling, dismantling, and disposal. Any person generating, collecting, storing, transporting, treating, recycling, reusing, recovering, and disposing of hazardous waste shall be guided by the following principles of environment and sustainable development relevant to e-waste management (i) precautionary principle; (ii) polluter pays principle; (iii) producer extended responsibility meaning that the person producing or importing a product shall be required to internalize environmental costs; (iv) cleaner production principle for those who own or operate a facility or premises that generate hazardous and toxic waste to minimize the waste generation. This is based on the right of those who live in Tanzania to have a clean, safe, and healthy environment, together with the duty to safeguard the environment from the adverse effects of e-waste.
Part IV concerning the institutional arrangements explains respectively the functions of the Minister responsible for matters relating to the environment, of the Director of Environment, and of the National Environmental Management Council. The Regulations also deal with the (i) prohibition of certain hazardous substances; (ii) reduction in the use of hazardous substances; (iii) packaging and labeling of e-waste; (iv) illegal traffic of e-waste; (v) registration of the permits issued under these Regulations. All the applications for the issuance of the permits are contained in the Schedules attached to these Regulations.
Furthermore, a permit issued by the Ministry is required for (i) in-country management of e-waste; (ii) collection and transport of e-waste; (iii) ownership or operation of a plant or facility, or site for treatment or recovery or recycling, or refurbishing or dismantling or assembling or disposal of e-waste; (iv) export of e-waste. These permits are issued under the conditions detailed in the Regulations. The Director shall be the Focal Point and Competent Authority for the Prior Informed Consent procedure for the export, import, or transit of e-waste.