The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2016
These Regulations amend the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/871) (“PROR”) and the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 (S.R. (NI) 2007/198) (“PRONIR”). PROR (in relation to Great Britain) and PRONIR (in relation to Northern Ireland) impose on producers and schemes 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 (OJ No. L 365, 31.12.1994, p.10).
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A draft of these Regulations has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament in accordance with section 93(10) of the EA 1995 and paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 2 to the ECA 1972.
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