Schemes: general provisions
12.—(1) The, operator of a scheme shall carry out the recovery and recycling obligations and where applicable, consumer information obligations, that every producer who is a member of the scheme that he operates would have had, but for their membership of that scheme.
(2) The operator of a scheme shall inform the members in writing immediately if—
(a)he receives a notice of cancellation of the scheme’s registration under regulation 18(3), together with a copy of the notice; or
(b)the scheme is granted conditional approval under regulation 13(4).
(3) The operator of a scheme may only demonstrate compliance with his recovery and recycling obligations through the acquisition of PRNs or PERNs or both.
(4) A PNR or PERN that relates to packaging waste delivered or exported for reprocessing in December in a year may be relied on by the operator of a scheme to demonstrate compliance with his recovery and recycling obligations either in that year or the following year.