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Environment Act 2021

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Version Superseded: 09/11/2022

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Point in time view as at 30/09/2022. This version of this provision has been superseded. Help about Status

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1(1)The relevant national authority may by regulations make provision for imposing producer responsibility obligations on specified persons in respect of specified products or materials.

(2)The regulations may be made only for the purpose of—

(a)preventing a product or material becoming waste, or reducing the amount of a product or material that becomes waste;

(b)sustaining a minimum level of, or promoting or securing an increase in, the re-use, redistribution, recovery or recycling of products or materials.

(3)In this Schedule “producer responsibility obligations” means steps required to be taken, in respect of products or materials, for a purpose in sub-paragraph (2).

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 4 para. 1 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 147(3)-(6)

I2Sch. 4 para. 1 in force at 24.1.2022 for E. by S.I. 2022/48, reg. 2(q)

I3Sch. 4 para. 1 in force at 28.2.2022 for N.I. by S.R. 2022/54, art. 2(1)(b)

I4Sch. 4 para. 1 in force at 7.3.2022 for W. by S.I. 2022/223, regs. 1(2), 2(d)

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