Regulation 57 Interpretation of this Part

In this Part and in Schedule 7—

• “administration fee” means the fee payable to the scheme administrator for each assessment year by liable producers under regulation 60(2)(b) and by liable holding companies under paragraph 6(1)(b)(ii) of Schedule 9;

• “assessment year” means a period commencing on 1st April in one year and ending on 31st March in the following year in respect of which—

  1. (a)

     the chargeable disposal costs of each relevant authority are to be assessed; and

  2. (b)

     a disposal fee and an administration fee are payable by each liable producer,

  and “assessment year” preceded by a year means the assessment year commencing on 1st April in that year;

• “chargeable administration costs” has the meaning given in regulation 65(2);

• “chargeable disposal costs”, in relation to a relevant authority and an assessment year, means—

  1. (a)

     the relevant authority’s net efficient disposal costs for that assessment year, unless paragraph (b) applies; or

  2. (b)

     where the relevant authority’s net efficient disposal costs for that assessment year are adjusted under regulation 72(8), those costs as so adjusted;

• “disposal costs” means—

  1. (a)

     the costs of relevant authorities referred to in regulation 69(1) as read together with paragraphs (2) and (3) of that regulation; and

  2. (b)

     public information disposal costs;

• “disposal fee” means the fee payable to the scheme administrator for each assessment year by liable producers under regulation 60(2)(a) and by liable holding companies under paragraph 6(1)(b)(i) of Schedule 9;

• “efficient disposal costs” has the meaning given in regulation 70(6);

• “liable holding company”, in relation to an assessment year, means a holding company which is part of a group registration and is liable under paragraph 6(1)(b) of Schedule 9 to pay disposal fees and administration fees to the scheme administrator for that assessment year;

• “modulate” has the meaning given in regulation 64(3);

• “net efficient disposal costs” means the efficient disposal costs in an assessment year, less expected waste income for that year, as determined under regulation 71(3);

• “public information disposal costs” means costs incurred by the scheme administrator in providing a public information service about—

  1. (a)

     the management of packaging waste; and

  2. (b)

     the prevention of packaging litter.

Where packaging sub-categories have been specified under regulation 7(11) for a packaging category (“the sub-divided packaging category”) for the purposes of a provision in this Part, any reference in that provision to a packaging category is to be read, in relation to the sub-divided packaging category, as a reference to those packaging sub-categories.

In this Part—