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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-amendment-regulations-2025/schedule-4/paragraph-2",
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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": "schedule/4/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Reports of information for a reporting period in 2024 or 2025: closed loop packaging waste",
  "text": "(1) Sub-paragraph (3) applies where—\n(a) before these Regulations came into force, a large producer reported information to the appropriate agency under—\n(i) the 2023 Data Regulations; or\n(ii) regulation 35 of the 2024 Regulations, as read with paragraph 2 of Schedule 15 to those Regulations,\nfor a 6-month period ending on 30th June 2024, 31st December 2024 or 30th June 2025; and\n(b) the conditions in sub-paragraph (2) are satisfied in relation to that producer.\n(2) The conditions in this sub-paragraph are that—\n(a) the producer would have been entitled to report an amount of packaging waste as closed loop packaging waste under paragraph 12(2) of Schedule 4 to the 2024 Regulations, as amended by these Regulations, had the 2024 Regulations been in force with the amendments made by regulations 6(4) and 13 of these Regulations when the producer reported that information;\n(b) the producer has retained evidence of the matters set out in regulation 34(3)(aa) of the 2024 Regulations, as inserted by regulation 6(4)(c) of these Regulations, in relation to that packaging waste (with regulation 34(3)(aa)(i) being read for this purpose as if the words from “and reported on” to the end were omitted); and\n(c) the producer has not already included that packaging waste in the amount of relevant packaging waste that it has reported under the 2024 Regulations or the 2023 Data Regulations for any reporting period.\n(3) Where this sub-paragraph applies, the producer may—\n(a) submit an amended report to the appropriate agency for a reporting period referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a); and\n(b) for the purposes of the amended report, include the amount of packaging waste referred to in sub-paragraph (2)(a) in the amount of relevant packaging waste that it reports for that period (regardless of whether the packaging waste in question satisfies the definition of “relevant packaging waste” in regulation 34(4) of the 2024 Regulations).\n(4) Sub-paragraph (6) applies where—\n(a) a large producer reports information to the appropriate agency under regulation 35 of the 2024 Regulations for a 6-month period ending on 31st December 2025; and\n(b) the conditions in sub-paragraph (5) are satisfied in relation to that producer.\n(5) The conditions in this sub-paragraph are that—\n(a) the producer would, but for sub-paragraph (6)(a), be entitled to report an amount of packaging waste as closed loop packaging waste under paragraph 12(2) of Schedule 4 to the 2024 Regulations as amended by these Regulations (for this purpose disregarding paragraph 12(5) of that Schedule); and\n(b) the conditions in sub-paragraph (2)(b) and (c) are satisfied in relation to that packaging waste.\n(6) Where this sub-paragraph applies, the producer—\n(a) may not report the packaging waste referred to in sub-paragraph (5)(a) as closed loop packaging waste; but\n(b) may include that packaging waste in the amount of relevant packaging waste that it reports for the reporting period (regardless of whether the packaging waste in question satisfies the definition of “relevant packaging waste” in regulation 34(4) of the 2024 Regulations).\n(7) An amended report under sub-paragraph (3)—\n(a) for the reporting period ending on 30th June 2024 or 31st December 2024 must be submitted to the appropriate agency by 28th January 2026;\n(b) for the reporting period ending on 30th June 2025 must be submitted to the appropriate agency by 1st April 2026.\n(8) A producer who submits, or a scheme operator or holding company who submits on behalf of a producer—\n(a) an amended report under sub-paragraph (3) for one or more reporting periods; or\n(b) a report for the reporting period ending on 31st December 2025 which, under sub-paragraph (6), includes packaging waste referred to in sub-paragraph (5)(a) in the amount of relevant packaging waste reported; or\n(c) both,\nmust pay a charge of £2,548 to the appropriate agency on or before 28th January 2026.\n(9) A producer who—\n(a) wishes to report an amount of closed loop packaging waste to the appropriate agency for one or both reporting periods in 2026, and\n(b) has applied for producer registration for 2026 before these Regulations come into force,\nmust pay the additional registration charge referred to in regulation 29(3)(c) of the 2024 Regulations, as inserted by regulation 6(2)(b) of these Regulations, to the appropriate agency on or before 28th January 2026.",
  "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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