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The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2023

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Scottish Statutory Instruments

2023 No. 336

Environmental Protection

The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2023

Made

8th November 2023

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

10th November 2023

Coming into force

1st January 2024

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(1) (“the Act”) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

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

Citation, commencement and extent

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2023 and come into force on 1 January 2024.

Amendment of the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007

2.  In schedule 2 of the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007(2)—

(a)in paragraph 3(4), in the formula, for “72” substitute “75”,

(b)in paragraph 5—

(i)for “2023” substitute “2024”,

(ii)for “77%” substitute “80%”,

(c)in paragraph 6, in Table 2—

(i)in the header to column 2, for “2023” substitute “2024”,

(ii)in the entry for wood, in column 2, for “35” substitute “42”,

(d)in paragraph 8, for “2023” substitute “2024”.

LORNA SLATER

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

8th November 2023

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 obligations on producers to recycle packaging waste in order to attain overall recycling and material-specific targets.

These Regulations set an overall recycling target as well as material-specific recycling targets for 2024 on obligated producers in Scotland in relation to glass (including the proportion to be recycled by re-melt), 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.

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