PART 1GENERAL

F1Modifications to the Packaging Waste Directive2A

1

For the purposes of these Regulations, the Packaging Waste Directive is to be read in accordance with this regulation.

2

A reference to one or more member States in a provision imposing an obligation or conferring a discretion on a member State or member States is to be read as a reference to the appropriate authority or local authority which, immediately before F2IP completion day , was responsible for the United Kingdom's compliance with that obligation or able to exercise that discretion in Northern Ireland.

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Article 3 is to be read as if––

a

in paragraph 2, for the words “Article 3 of Directive 2008/98/EC” there were substituted “Article 3(1) of the Waste Directive, as read with Articles 5 and 6 of that Directive;

b

in paragraph 2c, for the words “Directive 2008/98/EC” there were substituted “the Waste Directive”.

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