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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-amendment-etc-regulations-2025/regulation-27",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348272512",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Amendment, etc.) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-amendment-etc-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "OMP producers",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies in respect of a person who—\n(a) immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations, was supplying EEE originating from a non-UK supplier to private households in the United Kingdom, and\n(b) on the coming into force of these Regulations, is an OMP producer in respect of that activity.\n(2) Where immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations the person was registered as a scheme member, or an authorised representative of that person was so registered, the scheme member must provide information to the scheme operator as set out in the following provisions of Part 1 of Schedule 8 to the principal Regulations—\n(a) paragraph 10A (confirmation of whether the producer is an OMP producer); and\n(b) paragraph 11A (description of the methodology to be used by an OMP producer).\n(3) The information referred to—\n(a) in paragraph (2)(a) must be provided within 28 days of the coming into force of these Regulations;\n(b) in paragraph (2)(b) must be provided by 15th November 2025.\n(4) Any information received by the scheme operator under paragraph (2) must be provided to the appropriate authority—\n(a) within 28 days of receipt, in the case of information provided under paragraph (2)(a);\n(b) by 30th November 2025, in the case of information provided under paragraph (2)(b).\n(5) Where immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations the person was not a “producer” within the meaning of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations as they then had effect, that person must—\n(a) no later than 15th November 2025, join a scheme or appoint an authorised representative to join a scheme by that date, in compliance with regulation 14 of the principal Regulations, or\n(b) where regulation 14(11) of the principal Regulations applies, no later than 31st January 2026 make an application to register as a small producer in compliance with regulation 16 of the principal Regulations or appoint an authorised representative to make the application by that date.\n(6) Where a person or their authorised representative joins a scheme in compliance with paragraph (5)(a)—\n(a) for the purposes of regulation 14(1) of the principal Regulations, that person may continue to place EEE on the market during the part-year compliance period as though that person or their authorised representative had been a scheme member from the commencement of that period;\n(b) the information required to be provided by that person or their authorised representative under regulation 18 of the principal Regulations is deemed to include information relating to the part-year compliance period as though that person or their authorised representative had been a scheme member from the commencement of that period;\n(c) that person’s membership of the scheme, or the membership of their authorised representative, is deemed to subsist both for the part-year compliance period and for the compliance period commencing on 1st January 2026 for the purposes of regulations 14(7), 25(1), 28(1) and (3) and 33(1) and (2) of the principal Regulations;\n(d) any registration of that person or their authorised representative as a scheme member under regulation 26 of the principal Regulations is deemed to have effect both for the part-year compliance period and for the compliance period commencing on 1st January 2026 and for these purposes regulation 26 applies as though—\n(i) the date for the application to register that person or their authorised representative under paragraph (1) is on or before 30th November 2025;\n(ii) the date for confirming any grant of the application and for issuing any producer registration number under paragraph (6) is on or before 15th January 2026;\n(iii) paragraph (4)(b) does not require that person or their authorised representative to submit information under paragraph 19A of Part 1 of Schedule 8.\n(7) The information falling within regulation 38(3)(a) of the principal Regulations (including any information concerning category 7 and category 7.1 EEE for which transitional provision is made under regulation 28) must be—\n(a) provided by the producer or their authorised representative in accordance with regulation 18(1)(c) as an accumulated amount for the part-year compliance period as regards each category of EEE placed on the market during any quarter period (or part of a quarter period) falling within the part-year compliance period; and\n(b) reported as an accumulated amount by the scheme operator to the appropriate authority on or before 31st January 2026.\n(8) Where a person or their authorised representative applies to register as a small producer in compliance with paragraph (5)(b)—\n(a) for the purposes of regulation 15 of the principal Regulations, that person may continue to place EEE on the market during the part-year compliance period as though that person or their authorised representative had been registered as a small producer from the commencement of that period;\n(b) the tonnage data for the preceding compliance period which is required to be provided under regulation 16(2)(d)(i) of the principal Regulations is deemed to mean the data for the part-year compliance period;\n(c) for the purposes of regulation 16 of the principal Regulations, any registration of that person or their authorised representative as a small producer is deemed to have effect both for the part-year compliance period and for the compliance period commencing on 1st January 2026 and for those purposes regulation 16 applies as though—\n(i) the date for the application to register under paragraph (1)(a) is by 31st January 2026; and\n(ii) the date for notifying the outcome under paragraph (4)(a) is no later than 28th February 2026.\n(9) Where, immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations, the person was a producer who was required to join a scheme by virtue of regulation 14(5) of the principal Regulations but had not done so—\n(a) subject to paragraph (b), the information required to be provided to the scheme operator in connection with the application to register that person as a scheme member does not include the information set out in paragraph 11A of Part 1 of Schedule 8 to the principal Regulations;\n(b) where the information which is provided to the scheme operator in connection with the application to register does not include the information set out in paragraph 11A of Part 1 of Schedule 8 to the principal Regulations, that information must be provided to the scheme operator by 15th November 2025.\n(10) Any information received by the scheme operator under paragraph (9)(b) must be provided to the appropriate authority by 30th November 2025.\n(11) Part 13 of the principal Regulations (enforcement) applies, where an enforcement authority has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a requirement of paragraph (3), (4), (9)(b) or (10) has not been complied with, as that Part applies to the provisions specified in regulation 88(1) and for these purposes—\n(a) a requirement under paragraph (3) or (9)(b) is to be treated as though it were specified in regulation 88(1)(a);\n(b) a requirement under paragraph (4) or (10) is to be treated as though it were specified in regulation 88(1)(b).\n(12) Part 14 of the principal Regulations (offences and penalties) applies to a contravention or failure to comply with a requirement of paragraph (3), (4), (9)(b) or (10) as it applies to a contravention or failure under regulation 90 of the principal Regulations and for these purposes—\n(a) a requirement under paragraph (3) or (9)(b) is to be treated as though it were specified in regulation 90(1)(a) and (b);\n(b) a requirement under paragraph (4) or (10) is to be treated as though it were specified in regulation 90(3)(a).",
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