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These Regulations amend the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1999 (the 1999 Regulations), which impose on producers obligations to recover and recycle packaging waste, and related obligations, in order to attain the targets in Article 6(1) of Directive 94/62/EC.
Regulation 2 amends regulation 21B of the 1999 Regulations to allow reprocessors and exporters to apply for accreditation at any time throughout the year. Any accreditation that is granted will, if it is applied for and granted before the end of the year in respect of the subsequent year, be valid from 1st January and in all other cases from the date of the decision, and shall subsist until 31st December in that year.
Sub-paragraph (2)(a) removes the requirement to have applied for accreditation as a reprocessor or exporter by the 30th of September in the year preceding the year in which he is applying to be accredited.
Sub-paragraph (2)(b) removes the requirement for the Department to have notified the applicant of its decision by the 30th November, although the requirement to notify in writing remains.
Sub-paragraph (2)(c) is amended so that where accreditation is granted in the proceeding year to that to which the application relates, from the 1st January and in all other cases, from the date of the decision. Accreditations subsist until 31st December.
A full regulatory impact assessment has now been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the cost of business.
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