The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 (SI 2007 No. 871) entered into force on 16th March and replace the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2005.

The qualifying criteria remain unchanged at £2million turnover and 50 tonnes of packaging handled per year. Also the recycling and recovery targets for 2006 – 2010 detailed in Schedule 2 are unchanged.

Revisions include:
 Provision for submitting documents and maintaining registers in electronic form;
 An increase in the registration fee charged by EA/SEPA from £768 to £776. (The fee for small producers is unchanged at £562);
 Further detail on group registrations and registering a subsidiary company of a group (paragraph 6 of Schedule 8.
 Part X revokes the 2005 regulations.

The full text is available at: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2007/20070871.htm

Source: www.opsi.gov.uk (accessed 03/04/07)

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