{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2011/127",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-regulations-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Purposes, etc. of waste prevention programmes",
  "text": "(1) The Department shall ensure that a waste prevention programme—\n(a) is established in accordance with Articles 1 and 4 of the Waste Framework Directive;\n(aa) includes one of more programmes of food waste prevention measures;\n(b) has as its purpose a contribution towards breaking the link between economic growth and the environmental impacts associated with the generation of waste;\n(c) is expressed in writing and sets out the objectives of the waste prevention programme and a description of existing waste prevention measures and their contribution to waste prevention;\n(d) if it is integrated into the waste management strategy or other programme, is clearly identified as a waste prevention programme ;\n(e) sets out at least the waste prevention measures in the Schedule; and\n(f) where relevant, describes the contribution of instruments listed in Part 4 of Schedule 3 to the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 11(1)(aa) inserted (18.12.2020) by The Waste (Circular Economy) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/285), regs. 1(1), 10(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(1)(c) substituted (18.12.2020) by The Waste (Circular Economy) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/285), regs. 1(1), 10(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 11(1)(d) substituted (18.12.2020) by The Waste (Circular Economy) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/285), regs. 1(1), 10(4)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 11(1)(e)(f) inserted (18.12.2020) by The Waste (Circular Economy) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/285), regs. 1(1), 10(4)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 11 in operation at 8.4.2011, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/127/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:22:15.219920+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."
}