{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-essential-requirements-regulations-2015/schedule-3/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-essential-requirements-regulations-2015/schedule-3/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1640",
  "legislation_title": "The Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-essential-requirements-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The manufacturer or the manufacturer’s authorised representative, or, where neither the manufacturer nor the manufacturer’s authorised representative is established within in Northern Ireland or the EU United Kingdom, the responsible person who places the product on the market, must submit a report in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) to the enforcement authority, where the average heavy metals concentration levels on any twelve consecutive monthly controls made from the production of each individual glass furnace, representative of normal and regular production activity, exceeds a concentration level of 200 ppm.\n(2) The report must include as a minimum the following information—\nmeasures values;\ndescription of measurement methods employed;\nsuspected sources for the presence of heavy metals concentration levels; and\ndetailed description of the measures taken to reduce the heavy metals concentration levels.\n(3) Measurement results from production sites and measurement methods employed must be made available at any time to the enforcement authority, if requested.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 2(1) substituted (N.I.) (31.12.2020) by The Hazardous Substances and Packaging (Legislative Functions and Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1647), regs. 1(3), 15(10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 2(1) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/188), regs. 1(2)(b), 20(10) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1540, regs. 1(2), 11(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1640/schedule/3/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}