{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/schedule-7/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/schedule-7/paragraph-6.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": "schedule/7/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Guidance, etc., to relevant authorities",
  "text": "(1) The scheme administrator must produce guidance on the methodology and procedure that the scheme administrator will use and, where relevant, the factors that the scheme administrator will take into account, in—\n(a) assessing the efficient disposal costs of relevant authorities under regulation 70;\n(b) assessing the waste income of relevant authorities under regulation 71; and\n(c) determining whether to adjust, and making adjustments to, the net efficient disposal costs of relevant authorities under regulation 72(8).\n(2) The scheme administrator must publish the guidance under sub-paragraph (1) as soon as reasonably practicable after regulations 70 to 72 come into force, in such a manner that it is likely to come to the attention of relevant authorities, producers and any other persons likely to have an interest in the guidance.\n(3) The scheme administrator must, each year—\n(a) review the guidance under sub-paragraph (1); and\n(b) publish revised guidance by 1st November in that year, if it decides to amend the guidance which is to apply in relation to assessments and adjustments for the following assessment year.\n(4) The scheme administrator may provide, or arrange for the provision of—\n(a) guidance to relevant authorities on the information the scheme administrator needs to assess the chargeable disposal costs of a relevant authority for the purposes of Chapter 4 of Part 5; and\n(b) information, guidance, advice and any other support the scheme administrator considers necessary to relevant authorities as to how they may—\n(i) deliver efficient and effective waste management services; and\n(ii) increase the amount of packaging waste collected for recycling.\n(5) The scheme administrator may determine what level of information, guidance, advice or other support is required for the purposes of sub-paragraph (4), taking into account the needs of different relevant authorities.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2024/9780348264654/schedule/7/paragraph/6",
    "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."
}