The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007

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This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

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, appropriate agency or local authority which, immediately before IP completion day, was responsible for the United Kingdom's compliance with that obligation or able to exercise that discretion.

(3)  Article 3 is to be read as if—

(a)in paragraph 2, for “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 “Directive 2008/98/EC” there were substituted “the Waste Directive”.]

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