Schedule 4: Producer responsibility obligations Part 1: Requirements General power
Paragraph 1 sets out the power for the relevant national authority to make regulations to impose producer responsibility obligations on specified persons in respect of specified products or materials. Sub-paragraph (2) sets out that regulations may only be made for certain purposes. These purposes are preventing, or reducing the amount of, a product or material that becomes waste, and sustaining a minimum level of, or promoting or securing an increase in, the re-use, redistribution, recovery or recycling of products or materials.
	Paragraph 1(3) defines "producer responsibility obligations" to mean the steps required to be taken to achieve a purpose in sub-paragraph (2).