Provisions of the Waste Act No. 79/2015 Coll. for electrical and electronic equipment do not apply for handling of the electrical and electronic equipment:
- necessary for the protection of important interests related to the security of the Slovak Republic, including weapons, ammunition and military material intended for special military purposes,
- specially designed and installed as part of another type of equipment that is excluded from the scope of the section for electrical and electronic equipment or does not belong to it, which can fulfill their function only if they are part of such equipment,
- light bulbs,
- designed to be launched into space,
- large stationary industrial devices,
- large fixed installations, with the exception of devices that are not specially designed and installed as part of said installations,
- passenger or freight vehicles, with the exception of electric two-wheeled vehicles that are not type-approved,
- non-road mobile machines made available exclusively for professional use,
- specially designed exclusively for research and development purposes, made available only between enterprises,
- medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices, if these devices are expected to be infectious before the end of their life cycle, and actively implantable medical devices.