PART 2Monitoring
Obligation for local authorities to collect information and maintain recordsI14
1
A local authority must make arrangements for the collection of information that will allow the authority to comply with its requirements to maintain records under this regulation.
2
A local authority must maintain records containing the following information for each target financial year and each subsequent financial year until the next target financial year4—
a
the total amount of its municipal waste5;
b
the total amount of municipal waste sent to each and every waste facility by the local authority;
c
the amount of material rejected at each successive stage of sorting of the municipal waste, at any and all waste facilities; and
d
the amount of material rejected under paragraph (c) that is disposed of by the local authority, or by a waste facility.
3
The record must contain details of—
a
the description of the waste in terms of its material type;
b
how each material type was collected; and
c
if an agent of the local authority collected the waste, the name of that agent.
4
The records must be kept for a period of three years beginning on the day they are first submitted using the WasteDataFlow system in accordance with regulation 5(2).
5
A local authority may maintain the records required by paragraph (2) in electronic form if the text is capable of being produced by the local authority in a visible and legible documentary form.
6
A local authority that fails to maintain the records required by paragraph (2) is liable to a penalty.
7
In this regulation, “sorting” means the act of separating individual recyclable materials from an amount of mixed waste or mixed materials.
8
In this regulation, municipal waste is “disposed of” when it undergoes a disposal operation of a type that is identified in Annex I of the Waste Framework Directive.