The Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023

Made: 25th January 2023

Coming into operation: 28th February 2023

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PART 1 — General

Citation and commencement

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Interpretation

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Establishment in Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom

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Modifications to the Waste Directive

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Drink

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Packaging and packaging categories

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Household packaging

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Producers

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Licensors and pub operating businesses

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Supply

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Threshold criteria for large and small producers

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Exempt Packaging

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Exclusion of charities from data collection and reporting obligations

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Incapacity etc.

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PART 2 — Producers and obligations

Producer obligations

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Data collection obligations

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Data reporting obligations

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Notification of winding-up, receivership, administration, etc

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PART 3 — Producers and schemes

Producers and Scheme membership

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Schemes: general provisions

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Mid-year changes

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PART 4 — The Departments’ powers and duties

Publication of items recycled by relevant authorities

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Monitoring

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Approved persons

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Delegation of approved persons’ functions: procedure

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Information sharing

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SCHEDULE 1 — Collection and reporting information

PART 1 — Interpretation

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PART 2 — General Information

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PART 3 — Information obligations for brand owners, importers, distributors and service providers

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PART 4 — Information required from online marketplace operators

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PART 5 — Supply and discarding of packaging by nation

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SCHEDULE 2 — Licensors and Pub Operating Businesses

PART 1 — General

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PART 2 — Licensors

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PART 3 — Pub operating businesses

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Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs on 25th January 2023.

John Mills — A senior officer of the — Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I 2002/3153 (N.I. 7) as amended by S.R 2010/92, S.R 2011/127, S.I 2011/2911, 2011 c.23, S.I 2012/2788, S.I 2013/3135, S.I 2017/1200, S.R 2018/215 and S.I 2019/584.

[^f00002]: The Department of the Environment was dissolved by Section 1(9) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 and, by virtue of Article 8(1)(c) of the Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016, its functions for the purposes of these Regulations were transferred to the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.

[^f00003]: OJ L312, 22.11.2008, p. 3.

[^f00004]: OJ L150, 14.6.2018, p.109.

[^f00005]: S.R. 2007/198 as amended by S.R. 2010/396, S.R. 2016/79, S.R. 2016/95. S.R. 2018/200, S.R. 2016/2001, S.R. 2019/271, S.R. 2019/240, S.R. 2020/285, S.R. 2020/345 and S.R. 2022/286.

[^f00006]: 1994 c.26. Section 1 was amended by S.I. 2018/825.

[^f00007]: 2006 c.46. There are amendments to section 539 which are not relevant to these Regulations.

[^f00008]: S.I. 2015/1640 as amended by S.I. 2018/942, S.I. 2019/188, S.I. 2020/904, S.I. 2020/1540 and S.I. 2020/1647.

[^f00009]: S.I. 1996/3158 (N.I. 22)

[^f00010]: 1979 c.4.

[^f00011]: S.I. 1996/3159 (N.I. 23)

[^f00012]: 2006 c.46.

[^f00013]: S.S.I. 2020/154. Regulations 2 and 3(2) have been amended by S.S.I. 2022/76.

[^f00014]: 2008 c.12 (N.I.).

[^f00015]: 2010 c.4. Section 202 has been amended by paragraph 27(2) of Schedule 6 of the Finance Act 2010 (c. 13), section 35(5) of the Finance Act 2014 (c.26) and S.I. 2012/964.

[^f00016]: S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19).

[^f00017]: S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19) Articles 208A to 208X were inserted by N.I. 2010 c.16.

Editorial notes