{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-92",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-92.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/92",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "92",
  "heading": "Prohibition on issuing PRNs and PERNs unless accredited",
  "text": "(1) A person (“R”) must not, on or after 1st January 2026, issue a PRN unless—\n(a) the PRN relates to packaging waste received for recycling at a reprocessing site operated by R;\n(b) at the time the packaging waste is received at that reprocessing site, R is accredited in accordance with this Chapter to issue PRNs in relation to the recycling of the category of packaging waste to which the PRN relates at that reprocessing site; and\n(c) the PRN is issued either—\n(i) in the same year that the packaging waste is received at that reprocessing site; or\n(ii) no later than 31st January in the following year.\n(2) A person (“E”) must not, on or after 1st January 2026, issue a PERN unless—\n(a) the PERN relates to packaging waste exported by E to an overseas reprocessing site for recycling;\n(b) at the times the packaging waste is exported to, and received by, that overseas reprocessing site, E is accredited to issue PERNs in relation to the export of the category of packaging waste to which the PERN relates for recycling at that overseas reprocessing site; and\n(c) the PERN is issued either—\n(i) in the same year that the packaging waste is received at that overseas reprocessing site; or\n(ii) no later than 31st January in the following year.",
  "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/92",
    "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."
}