# The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2005, Regulation 12: Schemes: general provisions


(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.
(2) The operator of a scheme shall inform the members in writing immediately if—
(a) he receives a notice of cancellation of the scheme’s registration under regulation 18(3), together with a copy of the notice; or
(b) the scheme is granted conditional approval under regulation 13(4).
(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.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110736745/regulation/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-waste-regulations-2005/regulation-12
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