Waste (Amendment) Regulations, 2017

L.N. 164 of 2017

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT

(CAP. 549)

Waste (Amendment) Regulations, 2017

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 54 and 55 of the

Environment Protection Act, the Minister for Sustainable

Development, the Environment and Climate Change, after

consultation with the Environment and Resources Authority, has

made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Waste (Amendment) Citation.

Regulations, 2017 and they shall be read and construed as one with

the Waste Regulations hereinafter referred to as "the principal S.L. 549.63

regulations".

Immediately after Part VI of the principal regulations there Addition of new

Part to the

shall be added the following new Part and regulation:-

principal

regulations.

"PART VII

THE WASTE MANAGEMENT FUND

37. (1) Under the provisions of sub-article (9)

The Waste

Management

of article 32 of the Act, the competent authority hereby

Fund.

sets up the Waste Management Fund.

(2) The funds listed in Schedule 11 shall be used

at the discretion of the competent authority for matters

related to waste management including but not limited to

incentives, campaigns, plans, surveys, audits and

investigations and as the Minister in consultation with

the Authority may prescribe.".

Part VII shall be renumbered as Part VIII and regulation 37 Re-numbers

Part VII and

of the principal regulations shall be re-numbered as regulation 38.

regulation 37 of

the principal

regulations.

Immediately after Schedule 10 there shall be added the Adds new

Schedule 11 to

following new Schedule

the principal

regulations.

"SCHEDULE 11

WASTE MANAGEMENT FUND

The Waste Management Fund shall include

(a)

any revenue generated through any out of court settlement

agreement regulated by article 83 of the Act in relation to

(i)

S.L. 549.43 – Waste Management (Packaging and

Packaging Waste)

(ii)

S.L. 549.89 – Waste Management (Electrical and

Electronic Equipment) Regulations

(iii) S.L. 549.54 – Waste Management (Waste Batteries and

Accumulators) Regulations

(iv) S.L. 549.36 – Waste Management (End of Life Vehicles)

Regulations

(b)

any additional fees taken as an environmental gain pursuant to

producers or schemes failing to achieve targets set out in

regulation 8 of the Waste Management (Packaging and

Packaging Waste);

(c)

any funds arising out of forfeiture of financial guarantees

under

(i)

S.L. 549.43 – Waste Management (Packaging and

Packaging Waste)

(ii)

S.L. 549.89 – Waste Management (Electrical and

Electronic Equipment) Regulations

(iii) S.L. 549.54 – Waste Management (Waste Batteries and

Accumulators) Regulations".

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