{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-waste-regulations-2005/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-waste-regulations-2005/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110736745",
  "legislation_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-waste-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Schemes: general provisions",
  "text": "(1) The operator of a scheme shall carry out the recovery and recycling obligations and where applicable, consumer information obligations, that every producer who is a member of the scheme that he operates would have had, but for their membership of that scheme.\n(2) The operator of a scheme shall inform the members in writing immediately if—\n(a) he receives a notice of cancellation of the scheme’s registration under regulation 18(3), together with a copy of the notice; or\n(b) the scheme is granted conditional approval under regulation 13(4).\n(3) The operator of a scheme may only demonstrate compliance with his recovery and recycling obligations through the acquisition of PRNs or PERNs or both.\n(4) A PRN or PERN that relates to packaging waste delivered or exported for reprocessing in December in a year may be relied on by the operator of a scheme to demonstrate compliance with his recovery and recycling obligations either in that year or 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/2005/0110736745/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:21:46.415364+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."
}