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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348276176",
  "legislation_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of Part 2 (producers and obligations)",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 15 (producers), at the end insert—\n“(7) Paragraphs (8) and (9) apply where a supply of packaging has been made by a person who, under regulations 16 to 21, is a producer in relation to that packaging (“the first producer”).\n(8) Subject to paragraph (9), after the supply of packaging by the first producer, no other person except a seller becomes a producer in relation to that packaging as a result of that other person making a further supply of the packaging.\n(9) But if another component, for example a new label, is added to packaging after its supply by the first producer (“the new packaging component”), it is to be determined in accordance with regulations 16 to 22 who is a producer in relation to the new packaging component.”.\n(2) In regulation 16 (brand owners)—\n(a) in paragraph (1), in the opening words, omit “, subject to paragraph (3)”;\n(b) for paragraph (3) substitute—\n“(3) Subject to paragraph (4), where more than one brand appears on filled packaging—\n(a) if the brand owner in respect of one of those brands makes the first supply of the filled packaging, that brand owner is a producer;\n(b) otherwise, the brand owner in respect of the brand which occupies the largest area of the external surface of the packaging is a producer,\nin relation to that packaging, including any part of the packaging contained within, or forming part of, that packaging (whether or not that part of the packaging is branded).”.\n(3) In regulation 24 (threshold criteria: large and small producers), in paragraph (3), for sub-paragraph (b) substitute—\n“(b) the amount of packaging which CB is to be treated as supplying in the calendar year in which the merger took place is to be calculated in accordance with regulation 27A(4);”.\n(4) In regulation 25 (producer responsibility obligations)—\n(a) in paragraph (1), in the opening words, for “producer” in the first place that it occurs, substitute “person”;\n(b) in paragraph (2), for sub-paragraph (b) substitute—\n“(b) keep—\n(i) the evidence referred to in regulation 34(2)(b), in accordance with regulation 34(2); and\n(ii) the evidence specified in regulation 34(3), in accordance with that regulation;”.\n(5) For the heading to Chapter 3 of Part 2, substitute “Insolvency, etc., and mergers and acquisitions of producers”.\n(6) After regulation 27, insert regulations 27A (corporate mergers), 27B (transfers of ownership of a brand or business) and 27C (transfers of ownership: further obligations where the transferor is a large producer) as set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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