Regulation 74 Co-operation and joint working

(1)

The deposit management organisation may—

(a)

where it considers it appropriate to do so for the efficient and effective performance of the Scheme or any of its functions under the Scheme, co-operate or work jointly with a specified administrator;

(b)

provide advice or assistance to a specified administrator for the purposes of, or in connection with, the functions of the specified administrator under a deposit scheme, a Scottish deposit and return scheme or an overseas scheme.

(2)

Such arrangements may, for example, include—

(a)

arrangements intended to simplify registration procedures for producers and importers who supply drinks in the scheme area and in other parts of the United Kingdom;

(b)

arrangements intended to simplify the process of returning returnable items for the final user or consumer;

(c)

arrangements for the recycling, or to facilitate the recycling of, any in-scope material recovered from—

(i)

refund items returned through a Welsh deposit scheme or a Scottish deposit and return scheme;

(ii)

overseas scheme items.

(3)

In this regulation “specified administrator” means—

(a)

a Welsh scheme administrator, or

(b)

a Scottish deposit administrator, or

(c)

a person having functions equivalent to those of a scheme administrator under an overseas scheme.