{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-85",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-85.json",
  "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/85",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "85",
  "heading": "Registration: reprocessors",
  "text": "(1) A reprocessor (“R”) must, on and after 1st January 2026, be registered with the appropriate agency—\n(a) separately for each category of packaging waste recycled at each reprocessing site operated by R;\n(b) for any year in which that category of packaging waste is recycled at that reprocessing site.\n(2) R must submit to the appropriate agency a separate application for registration as a reprocessor for each category of packaging waste recycled at each reprocessing site for which R wishes to be registered, stating in each case which recycling operations R wishes that registration to cover.\n(3) An application for registration under this regulation must be made—\n(a) on or before 1st October 2025; or\n(b) if later, before the end of a period of 28 days starting with the day on which R first recycles the category of packaging waste to which the application relates at the reprocessing site to which the application relates.\n(4) An application for registration under this regulation must—\n(a) be made in such form and manner as the appropriate agency specifies;\n(b) contain the information set out in paragraphs 1 to 9 of Schedule 8;\n(c) be accompanied by a sampling and inspection plan for the reprocessing site to which the application relates, for approval by the appropriate agency; and\n(d) be accompanied by such other information as the appropriate agency reasonably requires to determine the application.\n(5) The charge in paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 1 must be paid for each application for registration made by a reprocessor, when the application is made.\n(6) Any information provided by a reprocessor to the appropriate agency in, or in relation to, an application for registration must be as accurate as reasonably possible.",
  "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/85",
    "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."
}