2014 No. 276

Environmental Protection

The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014

Made

Coming into operation

The Department of the Environment makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 3(1) and Article 4(1)(b), (c) and (d) of the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 F1.

The Department makes the following Regulations—

  1. a

    after consultation in accordance with Article 3(2) of the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Northern Ireland) Order 1998;

  2. b

    having regard to the matters in Article 3(6) as required by Article 3(5) of that Order (subject to the modifications required through the exercise of the powers in Article 3(4));and

  3. c

    in accordance with the duty in Article 3(7) of that Order.

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)

Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 and shall come into operation on 28th November 2014.

Amendment of the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20072

The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007) F2 are amended in accordance with regulation 3.

Amendment of Schedule 2 (recovery and recycling obligations)3

1

Schedule 2 is amended as follows.

2

In paragraph 6, for the row relating to glass in Table 2 (recycling targets) substitute—

Glass

81

81

75

76

77

77

3

In paragraph 6A, for Table 2A substitute—

Table 2A: Recycling by re-melt targets for glass

Year

Percentage

2013

63

2014

65

2015

66

2016

67

2017

67

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 6th November 2014.

Wesley Shannon A senior officer of theDepartment of the Environment

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/198) (the “2007 Regulations”). The 2007 Regulations impose on producers the obligation to recover and recycle packaging waste in order to attain the recovery and recycling targets set out in Article 6(1) of Council Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste (OJNo. L 365, 31.12.1994, p.10), as last amended by Directive 2013/2/EU (OJ No. L 37, 8.2.2013, p.10-12). These Regulations change the recycling and the recycling by re-melt targets for glass for the years 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.

A full impact assessment, which shows the anticipated cost of compliance to businesses and the voluntary sector in respect of these Regulations, is available at www.gov.uk/defra.