The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007

12.  The matters to be contained in the operational plan referred to in regulations 7(4)(f), 8(g), 14(3)(f) and 15(g) are matters which demonstrate— E+W+S

(a) that sufficient financial resources and technical expertise will be available to enable the performance of the recovery and recycling obligations of the producer or the obligations of the operator of the scheme under regulation 12(1) (as the case may be);

(b) that the arrangements for recovery and recycling take account of any statement which contains the Secretary of State’s policies in relation to the recovery and disposal of waste in England and Wales and which is made under section 44A(1) of the 1990 Act and any statement which contains SEPA’s policies in relation to the recovery and disposal of waste in Scotland and which is made under section 44B(2) of the 1990 Act, in so far as they are relevant;

(c) how the recovery and recycling obligations or the obligation of the operator of the scheme under regulation 12(1) (as the case may be) will be performed as regards each of the packaging materials relevant to those obligations including—

(i) the names and addresses of the reprocessors or exporters or both it is intended to use;

(ii) the names of any waste collection or disposal authorities from whom packaging waste is intended to be obtained;

(iii) the proportions in which the packaging waste which is to be recovered and recycled is to be obtained from the waste of a producer, other industrial or commercial waste, household waste or other waste;

(iv) the amounts to the nearest tonne of packaging waste it is proposed to recover in the three years immediately following registration; and

(v) the amounts to the nearest tonne of each such packaging material which it is proposed to recycle in the three years immediately following registration;

(d) the steps it is proposed to take to recover and recycle any of the packaging materials relevant to the recovery and recycling obligations or the obligation of the operator of the scheme under regulation 12(1) (as the case may be) in order not to affect adversely the interests of any producer, whose recovery and recycling obligations are predominantly in relation to another such packaging material;

(e) in relation to PERNs and PRNs which are expected to be acquired in each quarter of the three years immediately following registration, the tonnage of packaging waste and the type of recyclable material to which they are expected to relate;

(f) a statement indicating the contracts anticipated to be made with reprocessors or exporters or both and packaging waste suppliers in the three years immediately following registration;

(g) a statement as to how the producer or operator of a scheme (as the case may be) is assisting reprocessors to direct resources at—

(i) increasing the capacity for the collection and reprocessing of packaging waste; and

(ii) encouraging the development of markets for materials or goods made from recycled packaging waste;

(h) how information to which regulation 19 applies is to be monitored under a monitoring plan so that the operator of the scheme can meet his obligations under regulation [F1 12(1)]).

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in Sch. 3 para. 12(h) substituted (26.11.2010) by The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2849), regs. 1(b), 18

(1)

Inserted by s92(1) of the 1995 Act.

(2)

Inserted by s92(1) of the 1995 Act.