The Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024

Collection and reporting information

16.  In Schedule 1—

(a) in the heading to Part 3—

(i) after “brand owners”, insert “, packers/fillers”;

(ii) after “importers”, insert “or first UK owners”

(b) in paragraph 10—

(i) in sub paragraph (1)—

(aa) in head (a), omit the words from “, or for” to the end;

(bb) after head (a), insert—

“(aa) packers/fillers;”;

(cc) in head (b), after “importers”, insert “or first UK owners”;

(ii) after sub-paragraph (1), insert—

“(1A) A producer required by regulation 18 to report information in this Part—

(a) must only report that information in relation to packaging for which that person is a producer of a class listed in sub-paragraph (1);

(b) must not report any information in relation to any packaging in relation to which the producer only performs the function of a seller or an online marketplace operator.”;

(iii) in sub-paragraph (2), for “regulation 17(1)”, substitute “regulation 17(2)”;

(iv) in sub-paragraph (3)(b)(i), for “that information”, substitute “the information set out in paragraphs 11 to 13, 16, 17 and 23”;

(c) in paragraph 13—

(i) omit sub-paragraph (2);

(ii) for sub-paragraph (3), substitute—

“(3) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to packaging which an importer or first UK owner is treated as supplying within the meaning of regulation 11(1A).”;

(d) in paragraph 17(2)(a), for “, paper and straws”, substitute “and paper”;

(e) in paragraph 18, after “and 20”, insert “for all packaging in respect of which they are a producer under regulation 8(6)”;

(f) in paragraphs 19 and 20, for “the producer has supplied”, substitute “supplied through an online marketplace operated by the producer”;

(g) in paragraph 21—

(i) at the end of the opening words, insert “for all packaging in respect of which they are a producer, or, for the information in paragraph 22, a producer of a class specified in that paragraph”;

(ii) at the end of sub-paragraph (a), insert “,where applicable”;

(iii) for sub-paragraphs (b) and (c), substitute—

“(b) for large producers, the information in paragraphs 22 and 23, where applicable.”;

(h) in paragraph 22—

(i) in sub-paragraph (1)(b), after “the producer” the first time it is referred to, insert “imports and then”;

(ii) after sub-paragraph (1)(b), insert—

“(c) all packaging the producer takes ownership of and then discards, when the producer is a first UK owner;”;

(iii) in sub-paragraph (2)(b), after “tertiary packaging”, insert “and first UK owners who are treated as supplying secondary or tertiary packaging”.