PART 3U.K.Amendments to secondary legislation

The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007U.K.

12.—(1) The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2—

(a)in paragraph (1)—

(i)in the definition of “the Packaging Waste Directive”, at the end insert “ , and as read in accordance with regulation 2A ”;

(ii)in the definition of “the Waste Directive”, at the end insert “ , and as read in accordance with regulation 2B ”;

(b)in paragraph (2)—

[F1(i)in the definition of “appropriate authority”, in paragraph (a), for “regulation 4(7)” substitute “regulations 2A, 2B and 4(7)”;]

(ii)after the definition of “financial year” insert—

““local authority” means—

(a)in England outside Greater London—

(i)a district council,

(ii)a county council, or

(iii)the Council of the Isles of Scilly;

(b)in Greater London—

(i)the council of a London borough,

(ii)the Common Council of the City of London,

(iii)the Sub-Treasurer of the Inner Temple, or

(iv)the Under-Treasurer of the Middle Temple;

(c)in Wales—

(i)a county council, or

(ii)a county borough council;

(d)in Scotland, a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;”.

(3) After regulation 2, insert—

“Modifications to the Packaging Directive

2A.—(1) For the purposes of these Regulations, the [F2Packaging Waste Directive] is to be read in accordance with this regulation.

(2) A reference to one or more member States in a provision imposing an obligation or conferring a discretion on a member State or member States is to be read as a reference to the appropriate authority, appropriate agency or local authority which, immediately before [F3IP completion day], was responsible for the United Kingdom's compliance with that obligation or able to exercise that discretion.

[F4(3)  Article 3 is to be read as if—

(a)in paragraph 2, for “Article 3 of Directive 2008/98/EC” there were substituted “Article 3(1) of the Waste Directive, as read with Articles 5 and 6 of that Directive;

(b)in paragraph 2c, for “Directive 2008/98/EC” there were substituted “the Waste Directive”.]

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Modifications to the Waste Directive

2B.—(1) For the purposes of these Regulations, the Waste Directive is to be read in accordance with this regulation.

(2) A reference to one or more member States in a provision imposing an obligation or conferring a discretion on a member State or member States is to be read as a reference to the appropriate authority, appropriate agency or local authority which, immediately before [F6IP completion day], was responsible for the United Kingdom's compliance with that obligation or able to exercise that discretion.

[F7(3)  Article 5 is to be read as if—

(a)in paragraph 1, “Member States shall take appropriate measures to ensure that” were omitted;

(b)after paragraph 1 there were inserted—

“1A.  Any decision as to whether a substance or object is a by-product must be made—

(a)in accordance with any regulations setting out detailed criteria on the application of the conditions in paragraph 1 to specific substances or objects; and

(b)having regard to any guidance published by the appropriate authority or the appropriate agency for the purposes of this Article.”;

(c)paragraphs 2 and 3 were omitted.

(4) Article 6 is to be read as if—

(a)in paragraph 1, “Member States shall take appropriate measures to ensure that” were omitted;

(b)after paragraph 1 there were inserted—

“1A.  Any decision as to whether a substance or object has ceased to be waste must be made—

(a)in accordance with any regulations or retained direct EU legislation setting out detailed criteria on the application of the conditions in paragraph 1 to specific types of waste; and

(b)having regard to any guidance published by the appropriate authority or the appropriate agency for the purposes of this Article.”;

(c)in paragraph 2—

(i)the first subparagraph were omitted;

(ii)in the second subparagraph, for “Those detailed criteria” there were substituted “Any detailed criteria set out in guidance as referred to in paragraph 1A”;

(iii)the third and fourth subparagraphs were omitted;

(d)paragraph 3 were omitted;

(e)in paragraph 4—

(i)in the first subparagraph—

(aa)in the first sentence, for the words from the beginning to “Member State”, there were substituted “Where criteria have not been set out as referred to in paragraph 1A(a), the appropriate agency”;

(bb)the second sentence were omitted;

(ii)in the second subparagraph—

(aa)for “Member States” there were substituted “The appropriate agency”;

(bb)“by competent authorities” were omitted.”].

[F8(4) In regulation 24—

(a)in paragraph (3)(b)—

(i)in paragraph (i)—

(aa)for “European Union” substitute “United Kingdom”;

(bb)for the words from “the requirements” to the end, substitute “any recovery or recycling operations taking place in each such site take place under conditions that are broadly equivalent to requirements applicable to reprocessing sites in the United Kingdom”;

(ii)in paragraph (ii)—

(aa)for “European Union” substitute “United Kingdom”;

(bb)for “of Article 6(2) of that Directive” substitute “applicable to the shipment of waste from the United Kingdom”;

(b)omit paragraph (8);

(c)in paragraph (9)—

(i)for “European Union” substitute “United Kingdom”;

(ii)for “the requirements of Article 6(2) of the Packaging Waste Directive” substitute “requirements that are broadly equivalent to requirements applicable to reprocessing sites in the United Kingdom”.]

[F9(4A) In regulation 26(2), for the words from the beginning to “Directive”, substitute “Where the appropriate Agency has granted an accreditation to an exporter, and is no longer satisfied that the requirements in regulation 24(3)(b) or (9), which applied to that grant of accreditation,”.]

(5) After Part 11 insert—

“PART XIIU.K.Report

Report

43.—(1) The Secretary of State must publish, in a manner the Secretary of State considers appropriate, a report on the magnitude, characteristics and evolution of the packaging and packaging waste flows (including information on the toxicity or danger of packaging materials and components used for their manufacture).

(2) The first report under this regulation must be published before the end of the period of 3 years beginning with the day after that on which [F10IP completion day] falls.

(3) Subsequent reports must be published at intervals not exceeding 3 years.”.

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 12 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(2)(b)