UKuksi/2000/3375Enacted

The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000

Jurisdiction:: United Kingdom
Type:: EPR · Incentives
Last action:: Jan 1, 2000

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Obligations under this law

·Recover packaging waste at a minimum rate of 56% from 2001 onwards
·Recycle packaging waste at a minimum rate of 18% from 2001 onwards
·Register schemes with the Environment Agency and pay the applicable registration fee

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Amendment to the 1997 PRO Packaging Waste Regulations that increases recovery targets (52%→56%) and recycling targets (16%→18%) and adjusts registration fees, strengthening producer responsibility obligations for packaging waste management.

Covered Products

·packaging waste

Producer Obligations

·Recover packaging waste at a minimum rate of 56% from 2001 onwards
·Recycle packaging waste at a minimum rate of 18% from 2001 onwards
·Register schemes with the Environment Agency and pay the applicable registration fee

Key Deadlines

Jan 1, 2001compliance: New recovery target of 56% and recycling target of 18% apply from 2001 onwards

Dec 31, 2000other: Regulations come into force

Fee Structure

Per Unit: Scheme registration fee is £460 per member of the scheme (flat rate per member, replacing the previous sliding scale of £760 to £126 per member based on number of members)

Enforcement

Environment Agency:

Preemption Notes

Regulations apply to England and Wales only; Scotland and Wales have separate devolved competence arrangements under the Scotland Act 1998 and the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999

Compliance Dimensions

Collection / Recovery Targets56% packaging waste (recovery) by 2001 (Material Specific); 18% packaging waste (recycling) by 2001 (Material Specific)

“in paragraph 4(c), for "52%", substitute "56%"; in paragraph 5(c), for "16%", substitute "18%".”

Fees460 GBP Per Unit — per member of a registered packaging waste scheme

“in paragraph (2) for the words from "B is an amount" to "£126" substitute "B is £460"; in paragraph (3) for the words "B is the amount" to "the appropriate Agency" substitute "B is £460".”

PRO StructureCompetitive Pros · Environment Agency

“In regulation 15 (forms and fees for registration of a scheme)— a in paragraph (2) for the words from "B is an amount" to "£126" substitute "B is £460"; b in paragraph (3) for the words "B is the amount" to "the appropriate Agency" substitute "B is £460".”

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Citation, commencement and extent

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These Regulations may be cited as the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000, and shall come into force on 31st December 2000.

2

These Regulations apply to England and Wales only.

Amendment of the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997

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The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997 are amended as follows.

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In regulation 15 (forms and fees for registration of a scheme)—

a

in paragraph (2) for the words from “B is an amount” to “£126” substitute “B is £460”;

b

in paragraph (3) for the words “B is the amount” to “the appropriate Agency” substitute “B is £460”.

3

In Schedule 2 (recovery and recycling obligations)—

a

in paragraph 4(c), for “52%”, substitute “56%”;

b

in paragraph 5(c), for “16%”, substitute “18%”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Michael Meacher
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

22nd December 2000

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997 impose on producers obligations to recover and recycle packaging waste, and related obligations, in order to attain the targets in article 6(1) of Directive 94/62/EC .

These Regulations amend the fee which is to be charged by the Environment Agency on an application for registration of a scheme under regulations 14 and 15 of those Regulations. The fee is now calculated at the rate of £460 per member of the scheme, rather than on a scale (from £760 to £126 per member) according to the number of members of the scheme. They also increase the targets from 2001 onwards to 56% for recovery and 18% for recycling.

1995 c. 25 ; see section 93(8) for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred—

so far as exercisable within devolved competence, to the Scottish Ministers by section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) (but see section 57(1) of that Act);

so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 ( S.I. 1999/672 ). See paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38) as to the continued exercise of the Secretary of State’s functions for the purpose of implementing any Community obligation of the United Kingdom.

O.J. No. L365, 31.12.94, p. 10.

S.I. 1997/648 ; amended by S.I. 1999/1361 , 3447 .

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