# The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024, Regulation 19: Distributors


(1) In these Regulations, a “distributor” means a person who manufactures or imports unfilled packaging and supplies that packaging to another person.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a distributor is a producer in relation to any unfilled packaging which is—
(a) manufactured or imported by the distributor; and
(b) supplied to any person, other than a large producer who fills or packs the packaging before supplying it to any other person.
(3) But a distributor is not a producer in relation to unfilled packaging described in paragraph (2) if a large producer who is a brand owner, a packer/filler or a first UK owner is the producer in relation to that packaging under regulation 16, 17 or 18(4) once the packaging is filled.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2024/9780348264654/regulation/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-19
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