358 tal-2013 - Regolamenti tal-2013 li jemendaw ir-Regolamenti dwar l-Ippakkjar u l-Iskart tal-Ippakkjar fil-Maniġġar tal-Iskart

L.N. 358 of 2013

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT

(CAP. 504)

PRODUCT SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 427)

Waste Management (Packaging and Packaging Waste)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2013

BY VIRTUE of the powers conferred by articles 2, 61, 64, and

66 the Environment and Development Planning Act, and by article 38

of the Product Safety Act, the Minister for Sustainable Development,

the Environment and Climate Change, in consultation with the Malta

Environment and Planning Authority, and the Minister of Social

Dialogue, Consumer Affairs, and Civil Liberties, in consultation with

the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority, have made

the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Waste Management Citation.

(Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations, 2013,

and these regulations shall be read and construed as one with the

Waste Management (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations, S.L. 504.72

hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

Schedule I to the principal regulations shall be substituted Substitutes

Schedule I to

by the following new schedule

the principal

regulations.

"Schedule I

ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES FOR THE CRITERIA

REFERRED TO IN REGULATION 3

1. Illustrative examples for criterion (i)

(a)

Packaging

-

Sweet boxes;

-

Film overwrap around a CD case;

-

Mailing pouches for

catalogues

and

magazines (with a magazine inside);

-

Cake doilies sold with a cake;

-

Rolls, tubes and cylinders around which

flexible material (e.g. plastic film, aluminium, paper) is

wound, except rolls, tubes and cylinders intended as parts

of production machinery and not used to present a product

as a sales unit;

-

Flower pots intended to be used only for the

selling and transporting of plants and not intended to stay

with the plant throughout its life time;

-

Glass bottles for injection solutions;

-

CD spindles (sold with CDs, not intended to

be used as storage);

-

Clothes hangers (sold with a clothing item);

-

Matchboxes;

-

Sterile barrier systems (pouches, trays and

materials necessary to preserve the sterility of the product);

-

Beverage system capsules (e.g. coffee, cacao,

milk) which are left empty after use; and

-

Refillable steel cylinders used for various

kinds of gas, excluding fire extinguishers.

(b)

Non-packaging

-

Flower pots intended to stay with the plant

throughout its life time;

-

Tool boxes;

-

Tea bags;

-

Wax layers around cheese;

-

Sausage skins;

-

Clothes hangers (sold separately);

-

Beverage system coffee capsules, coffee foil

pouches, and filter paper coffee pods disposed together

with the used coffee product;

-

Cartridges for printers;

-

CD, DVD and video cases (sold together with

a CD, DVD or video inside);

-

CD spindles (sold empty, intended to be used

as storage);

-

Soluble bags for detergents;

-

Grave side lights (containers for candles); and

-

Mechanical quern (integrated in a refillable

recipient, e.g. refillable pepper mill).

2. Illustrative examples for criterion (ii)

(a)

Packaging, if designed and intended to be filled at

the point of sale

-

Paper or plastic carrier bags;

-

Disposable plates and cups;

-

Cling film;

-

Sandwich bags;

-

Aluminium foil; and

-

Plastic foil for cleaned clothes in laundries.

(b)

Non-packaging

-

Stirrer;

-

Disposable cutlery;

-

Wrapping paper (sold separately);

-

Paper baking cases (sold empty); and

-

Cake doilies sold without a cake.

Illustrative examples for criterion (iii)

(a)

Packaging

-

Labels hung directly on or attached to a

product.

(b)

Part of packaging

-

Mascara brush which forms part of the

container closure;

-

Sticky labels attached to another packaging

item;

-

Staples;

-

Plastic sleeves;

-

Device for measuring dosage which forms

part of the container closure for detergents; and

-

Mechanical quern (integrated in a non-

refillable recipient, filled with a product, e.g. pepper mill

filled with pepper).

(c)

Non-packaging

-

Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags.".

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