UKssi/2000/451Enacted

The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2000

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

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Obligations under this law

·Achieve a minimum recovery rate of 56% for packaging waste (applicable from 2001 onwards)
·Achieve a minimum recycling rate of 18% for packaging waste (applicable from 2001 onwards)
·Pay a flat rate registration fee of £460 per scheme member when registering a Packaging Waste scheme

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Amendment to the 1997 Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations that increases recovery targets (52%→56%) and recycling targets (16%→18%) for 2001 onwards, strengthening the EPR framework for packaging waste in Scotland.

Covered Products

·packaging waste

Producer Obligations

·Achieve a minimum recovery rate of 56% for packaging waste (applicable from 2001 onwards)
·Achieve a minimum recycling rate of 18% for packaging waste (applicable from 2001 onwards)
·Pay a flat rate registration fee of £460 per scheme member when registering a Packaging Waste scheme

Key Deadlines

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

Jan 1, 2001registration: Flat rate fee of £460 per scheme member applies for registration of a Packaging Waste scheme from this date

Fee Structure

Flat: Flat rate fee of £460 per member of a registered Packaging Waste scheme, replacing the previous sliding scale fee structure set out in regulation 15(2) and 15(3) of the 1997 Regulations

Enforcement

Scottish Ministers (functions transferred from Secretary of State under Scotland Act 1998 s.53):

Preemption Notes

These Regulations extend to Scotland only and amend the 1997 UK-wide Regulations solely in their application to Scotland, replacing references to the Secretary of State with Scottish Ministers for Scottish jurisdiction

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Citation, commencement and extent

1

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st January 2001.

2

These Regulations extend to Scotland only.

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

2

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

3

In regulation 3(5A) (information about reuse, recycling and recovery) for “Secretary of State”, substitute “Scottish Ministers”.

4

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

a

in paragraph (2) for “B is an amount” to “£126”, substitute “B is £460”; and

b

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

5

In Schedule 2 (recovery and recycling obligations)–

a

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

b

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

SAM GALBRAITH
A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh

20th December 2000

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997–

a

to replace the existing sliding scale fees for registration of a Packaging Waste scheme in regulation 15 with a flat rate fee for registration of £460 in respect of each member of the scheme; and

b

to increase the target for recovery to 56% and for recycling to 18%, for the year 2001 onwards.

These Regulations also amend a reference in regulation 3(5A) to the Secretary of State which should, for Scotland, be a reference to the Scottish Ministers.

The changes made by these Regulations were notified in draft to the European Commission under Directive 98/34/EC .

1995 c. 25 ; see section 93(8) for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) .

O.J. L 365, 31.12.94, p.10.

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

Regulation 3(5A) was inserted by S.I. 1999/3447 , regulation 2(3)(b).

Regulation 15 was amended by S.I. 1999/3447 , regulation 2(10).

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