Scottish Statutory Instruments
Environmental Protection
Made
8th November 2023
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
10th November 2023
Coming into force
1st January 2024
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 50, and paragraphs 1(1) and 2(2) of schedule 4, of the Environment Act 2021(1) (“the Act”) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
The Scottish Ministers have consulted in accordance with paragraph 8(1) of schedule 4 of the Act and are satisfied as to the matters specified in paragraph 9(1) of that schedule.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2023 and come into force on 1 January 2024.
2. In schedule 2 of the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007(2)—
(a)in paragraph 3(4), in the formula, for “72” substitute “75”,
(b)in paragraph 5—
(i)for “2023” substitute “2024”,
(ii)for “77%” substitute “80%”,
(c)in paragraph 6, in Table 2—
(i)in the header to column 2, for “2023” substitute “2024”,
(ii)in the entry for wood, in column 2, for “35” substitute “42”,
(d)in paragraph 8, for “2023” substitute “2024”.
LORNA SLATER
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
8th November 2023
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/871). Those Regulations impose obligations on producers to recycle packaging waste in order to attain overall recycling and material-specific targets.
These Regulations set an overall recycling target as well as material-specific recycling targets for 2024 on obligated producers in Scotland in relation to glass (including the proportion to be recycled by re-melt), plastic, aluminium, steel, paper/board, and wood.
A full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument (in combination with similar instruments in England and Wales) will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is available from the Producer Responsibility Unit at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF.
S.I. 2007/871; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2012/3082, S.I. 2013/1857, S.I. 2016/1146, S.S.I. 2020/387 and S.S.I. 2022/330.