{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-43",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2024/9780348264654",
  "legislation_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/43",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Obligations of compliance schemes",
  "text": "(1) A compliance scheme must be—\n(a) approved in accordance with regulation 47; and\n(b) registered in accordance with regulation 51, for each year that the scheme operates.\n(2) A compliance scheme must have a single scheme operator, which must be a person established in the United Kingdom.\n(3) The scheme operator must, in relation to a relevant year, carry out such of the following obligations that every producer who is a member of the compliance scheme would have had but for membership of the scheme—\n(a) the registration obligations under regulation 25(1)(a) and Chapter 1 of Part 3;\n(b) the reporting obligations under regulation 25(1)(c) and (d) and Chapter 2 of Part 3;\n(c) the recycling obligations under regulations 25(2)(a) and 40.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3), Part 3 applies to a scheme operator to the extent, and with the modifications, set out in regulation 44.\n(5) Paragraph (3) is subject to regulation 46 in relation to a producer who joins or leaves a compliance scheme during a relevant year.\n(6) The scheme operator must—\n(a) keep records, and submit reports to the appropriate agency, in accordance with regulation 55; and\n(b) submit an annual statement of compliance to the appropriate agency in accordance with regulation 56.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2024/9780348264654/regulation/43",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:40:28.668627+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."
}