{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-99",
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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/99",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "99",
  "heading": "Variation of accreditation",
  "text": "(1) A reprocessor or exporter (“RE”) may apply to the appropriate agency to vary an accreditation under this Chapter by increasing the tonnage band of a category of packaging waste for which RE is accredited to issue PRNs or PERNs.\n(2) An application under paragraph (1) must—\n(a) be made in such form and manner as the appropriate agency specifies;\n(b) state the new tonnage band of packaging waste for which RE wishes to be accredited; and\n(c) be accompanied by payment of the charge in paragraph 6(5) of Schedule 1.\n(3) An exporter (“E”) may apply to the appropriate agency to vary an accreditation to specify one or more overseas reprocessing sites, or additional overseas reprocessing sites, in respect of which E is accredited to issue PERNs in relation to packaging waste of the category specified in the accreditation which it exports for recycling to those sites.\n(4) An application under paragraph (3) must—\n(a) be made in such form and manner as the appropriate agency specifies;\n(b) state the name and address of each overseas reprocessing site that E wishes to be specified in the accreditation; and\n(c) be accompanied by payment of the charge in paragraph 6(6) of Schedule 1 for each such overseas reprocessing site.\n(5) An application under paragraph (1) or (3) must be granted by the appropriate agency where—\n(a) the application has been made in accordance with paragraph (2) or (4), as applicable;\n(b) the charge payable for the application has been paid;\n(c) the appropriate agency is satisfied that RE has complied with, and will continue to comply with, the conditions of accreditation referred to in regulation 98(b); and\n(d) in the case of an application under paragraph (3), the appropriate agency is satisfied that the recycling operations at each overseas reprocessing site take place under conditions that are broadly equivalent to requirements applicable to reprocessing sites in the United Kingdom,\nand in any other case must be refused.\n(6) The appropriate agency must, within 12 weeks of the day on which the agency has received an application which complies with paragraph (2) or (4), as applicable—\n(a) determine the application; and\n(b) serve on the applicant notice in writing of its decision.\n(7) If the application is refused, the notice of decision must include the reasons for the decision and, where applicable, a statement of the right of appeal under regulation 104(3)(e).",
  "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/99",
    "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."
}