2A.—(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.
[F3(3) 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”.]
F4(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]
Textual Amendments
F1Regs. 2A, 2B inserted (31.12.2020) by The Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/271), regs. 1, 4(3)
F2Words in reg. 2A substituted in earlier amending provision S.I. 2019/271, reg. 4(3) (31.12.2020) by The Waste (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/284), regs. 1(1), 4(2)
F3Reg. 2A(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Waste (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/284), regs. 1(1), 4(4)(a)(i)
F4Reg. 2A(4) omitted in earlier amending provision S.I. 2019/271, reg. 4(3) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Waste (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/284), regs. 1(1), 4(4)(a)(ii)