Waste Management (Packaging and Packaging Waste)

L.N. 310 of 2020

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT

(CAP. 549)

Waste Management (Packaging and Packaging Waste)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2020

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

the Environment Protection Act, the Minister for the Environment,

Climate Change and Planning, after consultation with the Environment

and Resources Authority, has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Waste Management Citation.

(Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations, 2020

and these regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Waste S.L. 549.43.

Management (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations,

hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

In regulation 2 of the principal regulations, immediately Amends

after sub-regulation (5) there shall be added the following new sub- regulation

regulation

"(6) The following shall be excluded from the

scope of these regulations, to the extent that they are

covered by the Beverage Containers Recycling

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Regulations, 2020

2020. (a) beverages in beverage containers

intended to be placed on the national market;

and

(b) any person importing, bottling,

canning or otherwise filling beverages in

beverage containers intended to be placed on

the market within the territory of Malta,

hereinafter referred to as a producer of

beverages in beverage containers

Provided that this regulation does not

exonerate such producers of beverages in beverage

containers from the provisions of these Regulations

with respect to other packaging or packaging

material placed on the market other than the

beverage containers referred to in the Beverage

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Containers Recycling Regulations, 2020

2020. Provided further that regulations 4, 5, 6,

7, 11, 18 and Schedule 2 shall still apply.".

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