The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997

Producers—records and returns

22.—(1) A producer who is subject to the certifying obligation shall maintain, and retain for at least 4 years after the record is made, records of the information referred to in paragraph (2) below and shall, at the same time as he furnishes a certificate of compliance to the appropriate Agency in accordance with regulation 23, make a return to that Agency of that information.

(2) The information is, in respect of the year 1998 and subsequent years—

(a)the amount in tonnes, to the nearest tonne, of packaging waste provided to a reprocessor by or on behalf of the producer;

(b)the amount in tonnes, to the nearest tonne, of each packaging material comprised in the packaging waste referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above, received by a reprocessor from the producer or a person acting on the producer’s behalf; and

(c)the dates on which, and the name and address of the reprocessor to which, the packaging waste referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above, was so provided.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) above, for the year 1998 and subsequent years, packaging materials means the materials mentioned in paragraph 6(1)(b) of Schedule 2.