
2022 No. 286
Environmental Protection
The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022
Made 27th October 2022
Coming into operation 1st January 2023

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs make these regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 50 of, and paragraphs 1(1) and 2(2) of Schedule 4 to, the Environment Act 2021 (“the Act”) and now vested in it.

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs makes these Regulations after consultation in accordance with paragraph 8 of Schedule 4 to the Act and is satisfied as to the matters specified in paragraph 9(1) of that Schedule.
Citation and commencement
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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.
Amendment of the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007
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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
