UKuksi/1999/1361Enacted

The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Jurisdiction:: United Kingdom
Type:: EPR
Last action:: Jan 1, 1999

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Obligations under this law

·Achieve a recovery target of 43% for 1999 (increased from 38%)
·Achieve a recovery target of 45% for 2000 (increased from 43%)
·Achieve a recycling target of 10% for 1999 (increased from 7%)

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Amendment to the 1997 Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations that increases recovery and recycling targets for 1999–2000 (recovery: 38%→43% and 43%→45%; recycling: 7%→10% and 11%→13%), strengthening the core EPR obligation on producers to manage packaging waste and meet EU Directive 94/62/EC targets.

Covered Products

·packaging waste

Producer Obligations

·Achieve a recovery target of 43% for 1999 (increased from 38%)
·Achieve a recovery target of 45% for 2000 (increased from 43%)
·Achieve a recycling target of 10% for 1999 (increased from 7%)
·Achieve a recycling target of 13% for 2000 (increased from 11%)

Key Deadlines

—compliance: Recovery target of 43% applicable for obligation year 1999

—compliance: Recovery target of 45% applicable for obligation year 2000

—compliance: Recycling target of 10% applicable for obligation year 1999

—compliance: Recycling target of 13% applicable for obligation year 2000

Compliance Dimensions

Collection / Recovery Targets43% packaging waste (recovery) by 1999; 45% packaging waste (recovery) by 2000; 10% packaging waste (recycling) by 1999

“Regulation 2(a) and (b) increase for 1999 and 2000 the recovery targets, used to calculate recovery obligations, from 38% and 43% to 43% and 45% respectively. Regulation 2(c) and (d) increase for 1999 and 2000 the recycling targets, used to calculate recycling obligations, from 7% and 11% to 10% and 13% respectively.”

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Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 4th June 1999.

Amendment of the recovery and recycling targets for 1999 and 2000

2

Schedule 2 (recovery and recycling obligations) to the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997 is amended as follows–

a

at the end of paragraph 4(a), add “and 43% respectively”;

b

in paragraph 4(b), for “43%” substitute “45%”;

c

at the end of paragraph 5(a), add “and 10% respectively”, and

d

in paragraph 5(b), for “11%” substitute “13%”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Michael Meacher
Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

11th May 1999

Sewel
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

13th May 1999

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997, which 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 .

Regulation 2(a) and (b) increase for 1999 and 2000 the recovery targets, used to calculate recovery obligations, from 38% and 43% to 43% and 45% respectively. Regulation 2(c) and (d) increase for 1999 and 2000 the recycling targets, used to calculate recycling obligations, from 7% and 11% to 10% and 13% respectively.

1995 c. 25 ; see section 93(8) for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

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

S.I. 1997/648 .

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