The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

4.—(1) For the purposes of paragraph 3(a) above audited accounts shall be treated as being available, where the person is a company, where annual accounts have been delivered to the registrar under [F1 section 441 of the Companies Act 2006] . N.I.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph 3(b) above, the amount of packaging or packaging materials handled is the amount handled in the United Kingdom in respect of which the producer made a supply referred to in Column 3 of Table 1, other than a Class A supply, calculated in tonnes to the nearest tonne by—

(a) including packaging, including reused transit packaging, or packaging materials so supplied which were imported into the United Kingdom by the producer, either himself or through an agent acting on his behalf; and

(b) excluding—

(i) reused sales packaging or primary packaging as defined in paragraph 1(a) of Article 3 of the Packaging Waste Directive;

(ii) production residues from the production of packaging or packaging materials or from any other production process occurring before, during or after the producer handled the packaging or packaging materials;

(iii) any packaging or packaging materials so supplied which were exported from the United Kingdom by the producer, either himself or through an agent acting on his behalf or which to the producer’s reasonable knowledge were otherwise exported from the United Kingdom [F2 (with the exception of any packaging or packaging materials exported from the United Kingdom to a marine installation)]; and

(iv) reused transit packaging (with the exception of reused transit packaging imported into the United Kingdom).

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 1 para. 4(1) substituted (1.1.2011) by The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/396), regs. 1(1), 18(3)(a)

F2 Words in Sch. 1 para. 4(2)(b)(iii) inserted (1.1.2011) by The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/396), regs. 1(1), 18(3)(b)

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 1 para. 4 in operation at 5.4.2007, see reg. 1(1)