# The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024, Regulation 40: Recycling obligations

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) Subject to regulation 42(2)(b) and to paragraph 5(1)(a) of Schedule 9, a large producer must comply with the recycling obligations set out in Schedule 5.
(2) A large producer may only demonstrate compliance with its recycling obligations through the acquisition of PRNs or PERNs or both.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), a PRN or PERN that is issued in respect of packaging waste received for recycling at a reprocessing site or an overseas reprocessing site may only be used to demonstrate compliance with a large producer’s recycling obligations for the year in which the packaging waste is received for recycling at that site.
(4) A PRN that is issued in respect of packaging waste received for recycling at a reprocessing site, or a PERN that is issued in respect of packaging waste received for recycling at an overseas reprocessing site, in the December of a year may be relied on by a large producer to demonstrate compliance with its recycling obligations either in that year or in the following year.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1332/regulation/40 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-40
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