PART 4Amendment of Subordinate Legislation

Amendment of the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007I167

1

The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 200760 shall be amended as follows.

2

In Regulation 2—

a

in paragraph (1) for the definition of “the Waste Directive” substitute:—

  • the Waste Directive” means Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste;

b

in paragraph (2) for the definition of “recovery” substitute —.

  • “recovery” means any of the applicable operations provided for in Annex II to the Waste Directive and for the purposes of these Regulations incineration at waste incineration plants with energy recovery shall be treated as if it is recovery; and “recover” and “recovery operations” shall be construed accordingly;

3

In Schedule 7—

a

at paragraph 2 in sub-paragraph (b), for “Annex IIB” substitute “Annex II” and in sub-paragraph (c), for “Annex IIA or IIB” substitute “Annex I or II”.