The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2016
These Regulations amend the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/871) (“PROR”) and the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 (S.R. (NI) 2007/198) (“PRONIR”). PROR (in relation to Great Britain) and PRONIR (in relation to Northern Ireland) impose on producers and schemes the obligation to recover and recycle packaging waste in order to attain the recovery and recycling targets set out in Article 6(1) of Council Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste (OJ No. L 365, 31.12.1994, p.10).