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The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003

Waste policies and regulation

King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

2015-05-20

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, WALES

These Regulations amend the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997 (the “1997 Regulations”), which impose on producers, and, on their behalf, scheme operators, obligations to recover and recycle specified tonnages of packaging waste, and related obligations, in order to attain the targets in Article 6(1) of Directive 94/62/EC (the “Directive”), which had to be met in 2001. A revision of the Directive, which will set new targets to be met in 2008, is being negotiated at present and is expected to be agreed soon. The targets presently in the 1997 Regulations are not high enough to enable the United Kingdom to increase its rates of recovery and recycling sufficiently to meet the proposed new Directive targets in 2008. These Regulations therefore set interim domestic targets, and recovery and recycling obligations, which reflect the new targets which the United Kingdom is likely to have to meet in 2008.