SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4Producer responsibility obligations

PART 1Requirements

Compliance schemes

4(1)The regulations may make provision authorising or requiring persons who are subject to a producer responsibility obligation to become members of a compliance scheme.

(2)The regulations may make provision about—

(a)the approval, or withdrawal of approval, of compliance schemes by the relevant national authority,

(b)the establishment, maintenance or management of a compliance scheme by a person appointed by the relevant national authority.

(3)In this Schedule “compliance scheme” means a scheme under which producer responsibility obligations of members of the scheme are discharged by the scheme operator on their behalf.