The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2007/871 |
| Year | 2007 |
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.(2) These Regulations extend to Great Britain.(1) In these Regulations—
- “the Packaging Waste Directive” means Council Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste F140, as last amended by F143Directive (EU) 2018/852F151, and as read in accordance with regulation 2A;
- F133“the Waste Directive” means Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste F139, as last amended by F144Directive (EU) 2018/851F152, and as read in accordance with regulation 2B;
- “the 1995 Act” means the Environment Act 1995; and
- “the 1990 Act” means the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
- F121“PRONIR” means the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007;
- “accredited exporter” means an exporter who is accredited by the appropriate Agency under regulation 24;
- “accredited reprocessor” means a reprocessor who is accredited by the appropriate Agency under regulation 24;
- “allocation method” means the method set out in paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 for calculating the recycling obligations of a small producer who has elected under regulation 7 to follow this method;
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F77“appropriate F123Agency” means—
- (a) for the purposes of any provision of these Regulations relating to the exercise of the functions of the appropriate F123Agency in England, the Environment Agency;
- (b) for the purposes of any provision of these Regulations relating to the exercise of the functions of the appropriate F123Agency in Scotland, SEPA;
- (c) for the purposes of any provision of these Regulations relating to the exercise of the functions of the appropriate F123Agency in Wales, the Natural Resources Body for Wales;
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(d) for the purposes of any provision of these Regulations relating to the obligations of any other person—
- (i) the Environment Agency, where at the beginning of the relevant year the person’s registered office or principal place of business is in England;
- (ii) SEPA, where at the beginning of the relevant year the person’s registered office or principal place of business is in Scotland;
- (iii) the Natural Resources Body for Wales, where at the beginning of the relevant year the person’s registered office or principal place of business is in Wales;
- (iv) at the election of the person, the Environment Agency, SEPA or the Natural Resources Body for Wales, where at the beginning of the relevant year the person does not have a registered office or principal place of business in Great Britain;
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(v) in relation to schemes, where there is more than one operator of a scheme and such operators have registered offices or principal places of business in England and in Scotland (but not in Wales) —
- (aa) the Environment Agency where the operators have elected to apply for approval of the scheme from F124that Agency; or
- (bb) SEPA where the operators have elected to apply for approval of the scheme from F125that Agency;
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(vi) in relation to schemes, where there is more than one operator of a scheme and such operators have registered offices or principal places of business in Wales and in Scotland (but not in England) —
- (aa) the Natural Resources Body for Wales where the operators have elected to apply for approval of the scheme from F126that Body; or
- (bb) SEPA where the operators have elected to apply for approval of the scheme from F127that Agency;
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(vii) F128in relation to schemes, where there is more than one operator of a scheme and such operators have registered offices or principal places of business in England and in Wales (but not in Scotland) —
- (aa) the Environment Agency, where the operators have elected to apply for approval of the scheme from that Agency; or
- (bb) the Natural Resources Body for Wales, where the operators have elected to apply for approval of the scheme from that Body;
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(viii) F128in relation to schemes, where there is more than one operator of a scheme and such operators have registered offices or principal places of business in England, in Scotland and in Wales—
- (aa) the Environment Agency,...
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