Manufacturers and the first distributors of the imported goods (i.e. packaged goods or electronic or electrical equipment (EEE)) registered in the territory of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (or Republika Srpska if they distribute in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina) are subject to the rules and must manage and dispose properly of the waste that they or their products produce. Under the system of operators, the companies that are subject to the rules on management of packaging waste or waste electronic or electrical equipment (WEEE) can fulfil their obligations either by contracting the operators to do what is required in order to comply with the rules or, alternatively, by paying a (punitive) levy for the Environmental Protection Fund of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Levies for the Fund are more than 10 times higher in the case of WEEE and even higher than the fee that is to be paid by operators for the same amount of output (waste), so it absolutely encourages the companies to sign contracts with operators. Based on the current rales, operators are not obliged to separately collect municipal waste and they rarely do it, because it is much easier for them to collect the required amount of waste from companies.