The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2022

Made9th November 2022

Laid before the Scottish Parliament11th November 2022

Coming into force1st January 2023

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 50 and paragraphs 1(1) and 2(2) of schedule 4 of the Environment Act 2021 (“the Act”)1 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

The Scottish Ministers have consulted in accordance with paragraph 8 of schedule 4 of the Act and are satisfied as to the matters specified in paragraph 9(1) of schedule 4 of the Act.

Citation, commencement and extent1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2022 and come into force on 1 January 2023.

(2)

These Regulations extend to Scotland only.

Amendment of the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 20072.

(1)

In schedule 2 (recycling obligations) of the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 20072—

(a)

for paragraph 5, substitute—

“5.
The percentage which is prescribed as the recycling target “X” for the year 2023 is 77%.”,

(b)

in paragraph 6—

(i)

for “years” substitute “year”,

(ii)

for Table 2 substitute—

“Table 2Recycling targets
Materials
2023
Glass
82
Plastic
61
Aluminium
69
Steel
87
Paper/Board
83
Wood
35”,

Materials	2023
Glass	82
Plastic	61
Aluminium	69
Steel	87
Paper/Board	83
Wood	35”,

(c)

in paragraph 8 for “each of” to the end substitute “the year 2023.”.

LORNA SLATER

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

9th November 2022

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/871). Those Regulations impose on producers obligations to recycle packaging waste in order to attain overall recycling and material-specific recycling targets.

These Regulations set an overall recycling target as well as material-specific recycling targets for 2023 on obligated producers in Scotland in relation to glass, plastic, aluminium, steel, paper/board and wood.

A full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument (in combination with similar instruments in England and Wales) will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is available from the Producer Responsibility Unit at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF.