# The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011, Regulation 4: Establishment of waste prevention programmes

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

(1) The appropriate authority must ... —
(a) evaluate the usefulness of the waste prevention measures set out as examples in Annex IV of the Waste Framework Directive and any other such measures the authority thinks fit; and
(b) establish one or more programmes of waste prevention measures (each a “waste prevention programme”).
(2) A programme established before the coming into force of these Regulations may be a waste prevention programme.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/988/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/waste-england-and-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-4
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