The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2005

Amendment of the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997

2.—(1) The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 21B—

(a) in paragraph (1), sub-paragraph (b) is deleted;

(b) for paragraph (3) there is substituted—

• “The appropriate Agency shall notify him in writing of its decision under paragraph (2).”;

(c) for paragraph (5) there is substituted—

• “Subject to regulation 21D, where accreditation is granted under paragraph (2), it shall take effect—

  (a)

  where the application is made in the preceding year to that in which the person wishes to be accredited—

  (i)

  from the 1st January where the decision to accredit was made before that date;

  (ii)

  in all other cases, from the date of the decision,

  and shall remain in force until the 31st December, in the year for which the person has applied to be accredited;

  (b)

  where the application is made during the year in which the person wishes to be accredited, from the date of the decision, and shall remain in force until the 31st December, in the year for which the person has applied to be accredited.”.

(3) In paragraph 1 of Schedule 2A—

(a) in subparagraphs (c)(i) and (d), for “year” there is substituted “period”;

(b) in subparagraph (c)(ii), for “that for which he is accredited” there is substituted “the year in which his period of accreditation fell”.

(1)

S.I. 1997/648. Relevant amendments were made by S.I.s 2003/3238 (W 318) and 2003/3294 (and an identical amendment was made by S.S.I. 2003/613).