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Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Review of the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997
A Consultation Paper

CONTENTS

Ministerial Foreword

Executive Summary

Chapter One: Introduction, Aims of the Review, Issues for Review

Chapter Two: Regulatory Impact Assessment

Chapter Three: Is the UK on course to meet the Directive targets? Is the percentage share-out of the burden fair in terms of the 15 December 1995 agreement? Encouraging cooperation between the sectors in the packaging chain. Chapter Four: Simplification of the Regulations; involving small businesses in increasing packaging waste recovery and recycling. Chapter Five: The merits of separate targets for household and commercial/industrialpackaging waste. Chapter Six: The case for additional regulatory measures to encourage minimisation, re-use, and greater consumer awareness of opportunities to minimise and recycle. Chapter Seven: Is the PRN system justified? Does it work to the disadvantage of any particular sector? How might it be improved? Chapter Eight: Monitoring compliance; Data Provision. Compliance monitoring by the Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA); Fees. Chapter Nine: Reassessment of the competitive effects which the turnover threshold test appears to have on some sectors. Chapter Ten: Consideration of a means of ensuring that businesses choosing to go it alone have a convincing approach planned for the steps they will take to meet their obligations.

Chapter Eleven: Future amendments to the competition scrutiny provisions in the Regulations.

Chapter Twelve: Implications for GB producers of the draft Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Northern Ireland) Regulations.

Chapter Thirteen: Technical Amendments.

Annex 1: Hansard Extract

Annex 2: The Issues for Review

Annex 3

Annex 4: Estimating total packaging used and put in the UK waste stream

Annex 5: The Revised Data Form

Annex 6: Off-the-shelf data forms

Annex 7: Revised Schedule 1 to take account of a new class of producer

Annex 8: Plans for complying with producer responsibility obligations

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Published 7 August 1998
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