The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Amendment of Part V (Records, Refunds and Certificate)

8.—(1) In regulation 22 (producers – records and returns) –

(a) in paragraph (2) –

(i) “in respect of the year 2000 and subsequent years” shall be omitted;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (a), for “provided to a reprocessor” there shall be substituted “delivered respectively for recycling and for recovery”;

(iii) in sub-paragraph (b) “and” shall be omitted;

(iv) at the end of sub-paragraph (c) “.” shall be omitted and “; and” shall be inserted; and

(v) after sub-paragraph (c) there shall be inserted –

“(d) the total number of tonnes of each material which is the subject of both the producer’s recovery obligations and his recycling obligations;

(e) the number of PRNs or PERNs acquired; and

(f) a statement which demonstrates how the producer has complied with his operational plan (where he has one), for the period in question.”;

(b) in paragraph (3) “for the year 2000 and subsequent years,” shall be omitted.

(2) In regulation 24 (schemes – records and returns) –

(a) in paragraph (1) –

(i) for “paragraphs (2) and” there shall be substituted “paragraph”; and

(ii) for sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted “on or before 31st January in the year immediately following the year to which the information relates”;

(b) paragraph (2) shall be omitted;

(c) in paragraph (3) –

(i) for “In respect of the year 2000 and subsequent years the information is, in addition to the information referred to in paragraph (2) –” there shall be substituted “For each year the information is –”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (a) after “provided” there shall be inserted “respectively for recycling and for recovery”;

(iii) at the end of sub-paragraph (c) “and” shall be omitted;

(iv) for sub-paragraph (d) there shall be substituted –

“(d) for each producer who is a member of the scheme in that year, the information specified in regulation 12(3)(c) and the revised operational plan referred to in regulation 13(h), together with any changes notified in accordance with the condition specified in regulation 13(d)(iv);

(e) the total number of tonnes of each material which is the subject of both the recovery and recycling obligations for which the operator of the scheme is responsible under regulation 3(5B);

(f) the number of PRNs or PERNs acquired by the operator of the scheme; and

(g) a statement which demonstrates how the scheme has complied with its operational plan in the period in question.”; and

(d) in paragraph (4) for the words “for the year 2000 and subsequent years packaging materials” there shall be substituted “packaging material”.