INFORMATION BULLETIN
Date: 23 July 2008
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Changes to export requirements for packaging and packaging waste
On 19 July changes to the requirements in relation to the export of packaging and packaging waste in the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (amended) Regulations 2008 came into force.
The change allows the relevant Environment Agency greater discretion in regard to the type of evidence required to prove that material will be reprocessed “under broadly equivalent” conditions and will bring the UK requirements closer to the Directive.
The change also means that in order for export companies to show that exports are eligible for the Packaging Waste Export Recovery Note system, the Environment Agencies would need to satisfy themselves that a set of conditions as laid down in the accompanying guidance are met which taken together constitute assurance that the material will be reprocessed under broadly equivalent standards.
The move is intended to address the current difficulties facing metal exporters in obtaining suitable evidence from overseas reprocessors for accreditation and has been supported by industry.
The proposed conditions are without prejudice to the requirements of the Waste Shipments Regulation (EC No. 1013/2006, in particular Articles 18 and 49).
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