The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 3447

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999

Made

13th December 1999

Coming into force except

for regulation 3

14th December 1999

Regulation 3

1st March 2000

The Secretary of State–

(a)

in exercise of his powers under sections 93, 94 and 95 of the Environment Act 1995(1), for the implementation of articles 6(1) and 13 of Directive 94/62/EC(2), after consultation in accordance with section 93(2) of that Act, and after having regard to the matters specified in section 93(6) as required by section 93(5) of that Act;

(b)

being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(3) in relation to the management of packaging and packaging waste(4), in exercise of his powers under section 2(2) of that Act(5), and

(c)

in exercise of all other powers enabling him in that behalf,

hereby makes the following Regulations, a draft of which has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:

(1)

1995 c. 25; see section 93(8) for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. See also the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38), Schedule 3 paragraph 5, and the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46), section 57(1), as respects the continued exercise of the Secretary of State’s functions for the purpose of implementing any Community obligation of the United Kingdom.

(2)

O.J. No. L365, 31.12.94, p. 10.

(3)

1972 c. 68.

(4)

S.I. 1996/266.

(5)

Regulation 2(3) is made partly under this power.