The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

• Citation: S.I. 2017/1221
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 and come into force on 1st January 2018.

Section 2 Amendment of Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007

(1) Schedule 2 to the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 (recovery and recycling obligations) is amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph 5, substitute—

(5) The following is prescribed as the recovery target “X”—

(a) for the year 2018, 80%;

(b) for the year 2019, 81%;

(c) for the year 2020, 82%.

(3) In paragraph 6, for Table 2 substitute—

Recycling targets

(4) For paragraph 8 substitute—

(8) The recycling allocation “B” is 30 for each of the years 2018 to 2020.