The associations AIMMAP, APIRAC, ANEME, ANIMEE and the waste management entity GVB sent a presentation regarding the alleged “judicial competition problems that the new regime for the management of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), approved by Decree-Law No. 67/ 2014, of 7 May, raises within the scope of the national market for the management of these wastes”. The Competition Authority presented a recommendation, after a prior hearing by the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA), the ministries responsible for the environment and the economy, the Directorate-General for Economic Activities (DGAE) and the representatives, signalling that the creation of a CCR (Coordination and Registration Center), as provided for in the legal framework in force, could promote horizontal coordination, centralizing the management of WEEE in a single entity in which the managing entities that compete with each other participate. Therefore, the Competition Authority proposed to amend the provisions of paragraph 1 of article 35 of the Decree-Law No. 67/2014, in order to not allowing the participation of "managing entities of collective WEEE management systems" and "associations of producers and distributors that individually represent all categories of EEE” in its composition, which must assume a position of complete functional independence from any market operator