{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deposit-scheme-for-drinks-containers-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deposit-scheme-for-drinks-containers-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-65.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2026/103",
  "legislation_title": "The Deposit Scheme for Drinks Containers (Wales) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deposit-scheme-for-drinks-containers-wales-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/65",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Registration fees for registered scheme producers",
  "text": "(1) The deposit management organisation may charge registered scheme producers a fee for all or part of a scheme year.\n(2) The fee charged under paragraph (1) (the “registration fee”) may be used to meet any or all of the following costs—\n(a) NRW costs, and\n(b) the costs incurred by the deposit management organisation in exercising its functions under or in connection with the Scheme.\n(3) The amount of the registration fee payable by a registered scheme producer is the aggregate of the following amounts—\n(a) the producer amount for containers made wholly or mainly from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic (if any),\n(b) the producer amount for containers made wholly or mainly from steel (if any),\n(c) the producer amount for containers made wholly or mainly from aluminium (if any), and\n(d) the producer amount for containers made wholly or mainly from glass (if any).\n(4) The producer amount for containers made wholly or mainly from each type of in-scope material must be calculated as follows (and may be £0)—\nA × B\nwhere—\n“A” is a fee to be determined by the deposit management organisation for the relevant scheme year for a container made wholly or mainly from the particular in-scope material (the “per container fee”), and\n“B” is the total number of containers made wholly or mainly from that in-scope material which the deposit management organisation expects the registered scheme producer to supply to consumers in the relevant scheme year.\n(5) The per container fee for a container made wholly or mainly from a particular in-scope material—\n(a) must be the same for all registered scheme producers, and\n(b) may be £0.\n(6) The deposit management organisation must, when determining the registration fee, have regard to the likely value, or if known the actual value, of each type of in-scope material which it expects to be recycled from all of the refund items which are collected by, or returned to, the deposit management organisation in the relevant scheme year.\n(7) The per container fee for one in-scope material must not subsidise the relevant costs of any other in-scope material.\n(8) In paragraph (7), “the relevant costs” of an in-scope material are the costs which the deposit management organisation expects to incur in the exercise of its functions under, or in connection with, the Scheme in relation to the collection, processing, recycling and reuse of refund items made wholly or mainly from that material.\n(9) The deposit management organisation must—\n(a) keep the registration fee under review,\n(b) carry out a full review of the operation of the registration fee at least every 12 months, and\n(c) publish the registration fee in such manner as it considers appropriate to bring the registration fee to the attention of registered scheme producers and state that the producers have a right under regulation 79 to ask the deposit management organisation to review the decision.\n(10) Before determining, or re-determining, the registration fee, the deposit management organisation must consult—\n(a) registered scheme producers, and\n(b) such other persons (if any) it considers appropriate,\nand have regard to the views expressed in response to the consultation.\n(11) The deposit management organisation may specify the times or intervals at which, and means by which, the registration fee must be paid.\n(12) The deposit management organisation may make different payment arrangements for different cases or circumstances and in particular—\n(a) must ensure that any registration fee charged to a registered scheme producer under paragraph (1) does not include a fee in respect of a container from a container drink which is a registered low volume product during the relevant scheme year;\n(b) may make arrangements for the registration fee to be reduced, waived or refunded (whether in whole or in part).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/103/regulation/65",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:54:52.499728+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}