{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-essential-requirements-regulations-2015/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-essential-requirements-regulations-2015/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1640",
  "legislation_title": "The Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-essential-requirements-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Requirement for technical documentation",
  "text": "(1) The responsible person must—\n(a) at the request of an enforcement authority submit, within twenty-eight days of the date of a request, the technical documentation or other information showing that the packaging complies with the essential requirements and the regulated metals concentration limits set out in regulation 5; and\n(b) retain the technical documentation or other information referred to in paragraph (1)(a) for a period of four years from the date that the responsible person places the packaging on the market.\n(2) The responsible person must—\n(a) submit a report as required under paragraphs 2(1) and (2) of Schedule 3 to these Regulations to the enforcement authority; and\n(b) at the request of an enforcement authority, submit within twenty-eight days of the date of the request, the annual declaration of conformity and other information set out in paragraphs 2(1) and (2) of Schedule 2 and paragraph 2(3) of Schedule 3 to these Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1640/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:32:48.463195+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."
}