The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007

5.  Where there is a group registration—

(a) the subsidiary companies in the group registration are exempt from complying with their producer responsibility obligations for the relevant year;

(b) the holding company has a producer registration obligation for the relevant year which is an obligation to make the group registration and for this purpose regulations 5 to 11, and Parts I and II of Schedule 3, shall be read as if—

(i) references to the applicant or the producer were references to the holding company;

(ii) references to information to be provided regarding the producer were to information to be provided regarding each company in the group registration; and

(iii) the references in regulations 7(4)(e) and 9(2) to a fee for producer registration were read as references to a fee for group registration;

(c) the holding company has recovery and recycling obligations and, where applicable, consumer information obligations for the relevant year which are the aggregate of its own obligations in respect of that year, if any, and the obligations which the subsidiary companies in the group registration would have had but for the group registration;

(d) the holding company shall furnish records and returns and provide a certificate of compliance, and references in regulation 21 and Schedule 4—

(i) to a producer shall be read as references to the holding company, and

(ii) to information shall be read as references to information regarding each company in the group registration.