Schedule 4: Producer responsibility obligations Part 1: Requirements Power to direct compliance scheme operators
Paragraph 6(1) allows the relevant national authority to direct a compliance scheme not to take an action, if that action would be incompatible with any international agreement to which the United Kingdom is a party. The relevant national authority may also direct a compliance scheme to take any action that is required for the purpose of implementing an international agreement to which the United Kingdom is a party. Sub-paragraph (3)(a) sets out that a direction by a relevant national authority may include consequential, supplementary, incidental, transitional or saving provision. Sub-paragraph (3)(b) sets out the terms by which a direction may be enforceable.