Italy

REPORT/STUDY	SUMMARY	Documents including WEEE flows/quantities
Extended Producer Responsibility organisations and their strategic role for Producers	Erion and Sofies, 2021: The study compares the flows of WEEE, waste batteries and accumulators and waste packaging streams in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom, providing an overview that highlights the commonalities and noteworthy practices among the EPR organisations of these countries. Author(s): Federico Magalini; Joséphine Courtois; Amba Concheso; Caroline Heinz.
CdC RAEE- WEEE Annual Report 2019	CdC RAEE (Italian WEEE Collection Agency): Annual Report for 2019 covering the activities of the national system for treatment of WEEE.
CdC RAEE - WEEE Annual report 2018	CdC RAEE (Italian WEEE Collection Agency): Annual Report for 2018 covering the activities of the national system for treatment of WEEE.
Holes in the Circular Economy: WEEE Leakage from Europe.A Report of the e-Trash Transparency Project.	Basel Action Network, 2018: The report reveals the findings of a two-year study in 10 EU countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the UK ) that followed 314 old computers, printers, and monitors in which GPS Trackers had been secretly installed to determine the rate and flows of "leakage" from the EU of consumer-generated WEEE. 19 (6%) of the tracked scrap equipment was exported to the countries of Ghana, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tanzania, Thailand, and Ukraine, outside of the EU; the flows discovered, if extrapolated, would total 352,474 metric tonnes per annum, moving from the EU to developing countries. Author(s): Jim Puckett; Chris Brandt; and Hayley Palmer.
CdC RAEE - WEEE Annual report 2017	CdC RAEE (Italian WEEE Collection Agency): Annual Report for 2017 covering the activities of the national system for treatment of WEEE.
I pirati dei RAEE. Dall’analisi dei fenomeni d’illegalità nella raccolta, gestione e riciclo dei rifiuti da apparecchiature elettriche ed elettroniche, alle attività di prevenzione e di contrasto (The pirates of WEEE. From the analysis of the phenomena of illegality in the collection, management and recycling of waste from electrical and electronic equipment, to prevention and law enforcement activities)	CdC RAEE and Legambiente, 2014: Legambiente collected numbers, processed data, carried out research and surveys on time in order to draw, for the first time in Italy, a photograph in the round of the current situation.The aim of the report is to analyze all the data on the management of WEEE collected, putting in report the effects of the so-called informal management of the entire supply chain, from collection to treatment, and monitoring the effects. Text in Italian. Translation not available.
Threat Assessment -Italian Organised Crime	Europol, 2013: The restricted version of this document, made available to the EU law enforcement community, aims at explaining the nature and structure of the four Italian Mafias: Sicilian Mafia, Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta, Neapolitan Camorra and Apulian Organised Crime. It analyses their international dimension, the different attitudes they assume when operating outside their territory, the well-practised and new modi operandi used in their criminal operations, and their trans-national strategies. It also attempts to anticipate their next moves, and indeed to identify possible vulnerabilities and the course of actions necessary to successfully combat Mafia activity.