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Producer Responsibility

Planning and Environmental Policy Group is responsible for all packaging and packaging waste legislation to ensure compliance with the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive. It is also responsible for regulations on non-packaging plastic waste from the agricultural sector.

Strategic review of packaging policy, undertaken by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS), and the Devolved Administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Consultation on Implementing the Packaging Strategy: Recovery and recycling targets, funding transparency and technical changes

Issued: 04/03/2010
Consultation starts: 04/03/2010
Consultation closes: 27/05/2010

Summary

This consultation seeks your views on proposals by the Department of Environment on a number of changes to producer responsibility regime for packaging waste, set out in the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations(Northern Ireland) 2007 (as amended).

The proposals in this consultation are expected to be of greatest interest to:

  • Packaging ‘producers’, as defined in the Packaging Regulations
  • Packaging compliance schemes
  • Reprocessors and exporters of waste packaging
  • Waste management companies and local authorities involved in the collection of packaging
  • any research institutions, groups or individuals with a particular interest in packaging waste.

Consultation documents

The following documents form part of the consultation:

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