
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 and come into operation on 1st January 2023.
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(1) The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 are amended as follows.
(2) In Schedule 2 (recycling obligations)—
(a) for paragraph 5 substitute—“
5. 
The percentage which is prescribed as the recycling target “X” for the year 2023 is 77%”;
(b) in paragraph 6—
(i) for “years” substitute “year”,
(ii) for Table 2 in paragraph 6 substitute—“

Materials 2023
Glass 82
Plastic 61
Aluminium 69
Steel 87
Paper/Board 83
Wood 35”
(c) in paragraph 8 for “each of” to the end substitute “the year 2023.”
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs on 27th October 2022
Dave Foster
A senior officer of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
