{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-60",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-60.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1332",
  "legislation_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/60",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "60",
  "heading": "Liability of producers to pay annual disposal and administration fees",
  "text": "(1) A person is a liable producer in relation to an assessment year if—\n(a) the person is a producer in all or part of that assessment year; and\n(b) in the calendar year ending on the 31st December preceding the start of that assessment year, the person—\n(i) was a brand owner, a packer/filler, an importer or first UK owner, a distributor, an online marketplace operator or a service provider;\n(ii) was a large producer; and\n(iii) supplied household packaging.\n(2) A person must, for each assessment year in relation to which the person is a liable producer, pay to the scheme administrator in accordance with regulation 68—\n(a) a disposal fee; and\n(b) an administration fee.\n(3) The scheme administrator must for each assessment year, as soon as reasonably practicable after the start of the assessment year—\n(a) calculate for each liable producer the amounts of—\n(i) the disposal fee payable by that producer, in accordance with regulations 61 to 64 and 66; and\n(ii) the administration fee payable by that producer, in accordance with regulations 65 and 66; and\n(b) serve a notice of liability on each liable producer in accordance with regulation 67.\n(4) In relation to corporate bodies that are registered with the appropriate agency as a group under paragraph 4 of Schedule 9, this Chapter applies subject to the modifications in paragraph 6 of Schedule 9.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 60(1) substituted (1.1.2026) by The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1369), regs. 1(2), 7(1)(a) (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 60(2) substituted (1.1.2026) by The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1369), regs. 1(2), 7(1)(b) (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 60 in force at 1.1.2025, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1332/regulation/60",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:22:40.326092+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."
}