Guidance: Extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging producer data requirements: RPS 330
Summary
The Environment Agency has updated its regulatory position statement on extended producer responsibility (EPR) packaging data requirements. It confirms that legal reporting duties remain in force under the 2024 Packaging Regulations, while setting out circumstances where enforcement action would not normally be taken if the RPS conditions are met.
Why it matters
Residential property surveyors may encounter clients, landlords or managing agents affected by packaging producer obligations, particularly where businesses handle packaging data or supply bags in England. The update is relevant for compliance awareness, even though it does not change the underlying legal requirements.
Key points
- Covers nation data, self-managed organisational waste data and bag data reporting periods.
- Confirms the RPS does not alter legal duties under the Packaging Regulations 2024.
- Environment Agency says it will not normally enforce if RPS conditions are met.
- RPS has been updated to include plastic and paper bags supplied in England.
- Next review is scheduled by 31 December 2028.
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