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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2022 and come into force on 1st January 2023.
(2) These Regulations extend to and apply in relation to England and Wales only.
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(1) The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 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.”
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
22nd November 2022