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Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Classification Packaging and Labelling) and Use of Transportable Pressure Receptacles Regulations 1996

SI 1996/2092 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 1 September 1996 except for regulation 21(9) which will come into force 1 January 1999.

Department

Department of Transport

Type

Statutory instruments

Date

9 August 1996

Reference

SI 1996/2092

House

House of Commons; House of Lords

Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail Regulations 1996

SI 1996/2089 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 1 September 1996.

Department

Department of Transport

Type

Statutory instruments

Date

9 August 1996

Reference

SI 1996/2089

House

House of Commons; House of Lords

Packaging Labelling and Carriage of Radioactive Material by Rail Regulations 1996

SI 1996/2090 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 1 September 1996.

Department

Department of Transport

Type

Statutory instruments

Date

9 August 1996

Reference

SI 1996/2090

House

House of Commons; House of Lords

Ferrers, Earl

Statement announcing publication of a consultation paper, together with draft regulations, which set out the Government's proposals for producer responsibility obligations for packaging waste and which will give effect to the EC Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste (94/62/EC). Copies placed in the Library.

Asked by

Viscount Davidson (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 July 1996

Reference

574 c31-2WA

House

House of Lords

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

If he will require tamper-proof seals to be used on processed foods, drinks and other items intended for human consumption.

Asked by

Gordon Prentice (Labour)

Answering body

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 July 1996

Reference

36238; 281 c310W;281 c310-1W

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment

Statement announcing publication of draft regulations to give effect to producer responsibility for packaging waste. - Inc fact that regulations and consultation paper have been placed in Library.

Asked by

Michael Grylls (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of the Environment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 July 1996

Reference

37479; 281 c263-4W

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment

When he expects to publish the regulations implementing the European Directive on packaging waste; and when and under which procedure the regulations are expected to be placed before the House for approval.

Asked by

Eric Illsley (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

8 July 1996

Reference

36154; 281 c52W;281 c51-2W

House

House of Commons

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

What recent discussions he has had with the British Agrochemicals Association concerning the implementation of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (94/92/EC).

Asked by

Gordon Prentice (Labour)

Answering body

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

2 July 1996

Reference

34740; 280 c423W

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment

When he expects to publish the Government's proposals under the European Directive on Packaging Waste. - Shortly. (Failed OPQ)

Asked by

Eric Illsley (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 June 1996

Reference

29787; 278 c409W

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment

What representations he has received about the provision of a conscience clause in the draft regulations, now being prepared by his Department, under the Environment Act 1995, concerning the shared legal obligations and recovery in recycling of packaging waste.

Asked by

Lord Alton of Liverpool (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of the Environment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 June 1996

Reference

30646; 278 c409W

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment

What estimate his Department has made of the cost for the packaging waste industry of complying with the proposed new Packaging Waste Regulations; and what was the outcome of this assessment. - Inc ref to 277 c73-5W and Producer Responsibility for Packaging Waste - A Consultation Paper (in Lib).

Asked by

Liz Lynne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of the Environment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 May 1996

Reference

29924; 278 c225W

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment

If he will list the areas where the proposed Packaging Waste Regulations will be more extensive than the requirements set by the European Union Directive on Packaging Waste Regulations; and what are the reasons for such a policy. - Inc fact that regulations to be published shortly for consultation.

Asked by

Liz Lynne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of the Environment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 May 1996

Reference

29923; 278 c224-5W

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment

What is the role and purpose of the Advisory Committee on Packaging. - Inc membership and terms of ref.

Asked by

Anthony Coombs (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of the Environment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

For answer on

8 May 1996

Answered on

8 May 1996

Mr. Anthony Coombs: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the role and purpose of the advisory committee on packaging.[28882] Mr. Gummer: In the answer that I gave to my hon. Friend the hon. Member for Eastbourne (Mr. Waterson) on 7 May, I set out some of the background to the Government's decision to follow a shared approach as the basis for regulations which would give effect to the producer responsibility initiative and to the EC directive on packaging and packaging waste. Continuing partnership with industry is critical to success in this area and following the agreement reached on 15 December, I have asked Sir Peter Parker to chair an advisory committee on packaging comprising some of the senior business representatives most closely involved in this initiative. The external members of the committee are: Sir Peter Parker KBE LVO: Chairman Dr. Bill Cook: British Gas Mr. Brian Curtis: CarnaudMetal Box--Foodcan UK Mr. Peter Lipscomb: Guinness plc Mr. John Longworth: Tesco plc Mr. John Turner: Coca-Cola Schweppes Beverages Mr. Keith Stenning: British Polythene Industries plc Mr. Peter Williams: David S. Smith (Holdings) plc Mr. Martin van Zwanenberg: Marks & Spencer plc For its initial work the committee is supported by a technical working group of experts with particular experience of packaging and related issues. In addition to the work it has already undertaken, the committee will continue to provide guidance on the introduction and implementation of regulations, based on the 15 December agreement, and will advise me, the President of the Board of Trade, the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Wales, the chairman of the Environment Agency and the chairman of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. The committee will advise on the effectiveness of regulations in delivering the EC directive targets and will help to monitor their operation. In particular, it will advise on arrangements for carrying out a review of the legal obligation, in the light of data submitted after the regulations have come into force, including consideration of the actual burden on individual companies. In carrying out its work, the committee will keep in mind the Government's tests for the approach to legislation as set out in the Official Report on 2 February 1995, columns 762-64, the requirements placed on the Secretary of State by the enabling powers in the Environment Act 1995 and Ministers' emphasis on the desirability of maintaining a consensual approach for the development of an effective business-led initiative for the recovery and recycling of packaging waste in the UK. I am grateful for the work already carried out by Sir Peter Parker and members of the advisory committee and the supporting technical group. I intend to publish the committee's preliminary advise to accompany the issue of draft regulations for consultation and at appropriate stages in the future.

Date

8 May 1996

Reference

28882; 277 c137-8W

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment

How the European Community Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste will be implemented.

Asked by

Nigel Waterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of the Environment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

For answer on

7 May 1996

Answered on

7 May 1996

Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how the European Community directive on packaging and packaging waste will be implemented; and if he will make a statement.[28443] Mr. Gummer: As part of its commitment to achieve sustainable development, it is Government policy to encourage the recovery of value from waste wherever that is practicable. To this end it is desirable that more of the real environmental costs of waste production and disposal should be borne by the producers of that waste directly. This creates a stronger market incentive for companies both to reduce waste in the first place, and then to find cost effective ways of recycling or otherwise recovering unavoidable waste. The Government's objective should be to establish a policy framework within which the efficiency and innovativeness of the market can be harnessed to solve environmental problems. Producer responsibility does that; it makes the market work to the benefit of the environment. Industries concerned with packaging--those who manufacture and use the packaging which ends up as waste, including retailers--have been particularly resourceful in their response to the challenge of producer responsibility. Eight million tonnes of packaging waste are produced each year, and in response to the Government's invitation the industry's producer responsibility group put forward its own proposals to recover and recycle 58 per cent. of United Kingdom's packaging waste by 2001. It proposed that this should be achieved through the creation of one or more industry financed and managed organisations which would invest in a variety of waste recovery projects. The prototype recovery organisation is now being established as VALPAK. However the industry made clear that these schemes would be established only if there were effective legislation to deter free riders. The Government accepted this industry view and invited comments on a range of possible legal obligations which could achieve a framework in which competing companies could operate and which would enable the Government to implement the EC directive on packaging and packaging waste. In responding to the different options for a legal obligation, the great majority of business organisations indicated a strong belief that the primary objective of meeting the UK's recovery and recycling targets could be secured only if all the major players had an incentive to co-operate through a shared legal obligation. This would also create the most favourable conditions for formation of cross-sectoral collective industry schemes, which many businesses have indicated is their preferred approach to meeting these targets. Further work took place to develop a form of shared approach which could both provide assurance to Government that the necessary targets would be met while also providing an acceptable basis for apportioning the obligation between the different stages of the packaging chain. Final agreement on such a basis and its supporting principles was achieved on 15 December 1995 at a meeting chaired by Sir Peter Parker and attended by 30 of the leading businesses involved. This has not been the approach in some other EU member states. Some have proposed a packaging tax and others have legislated for a "take back" requirement upon shops and business premises to receive back from consumers all of the sales packaging around products sold. These approaches provide less flexibility for affected businesses and do little to create the new markets for recycled materials which is essential in the long term. Indeed some schemes in some other states have had a damaging impact on reprocessing and manufacturing activity in the UK and the rest of the Union and it was for that reason that industry pressed for a single market framework which we then successfully negotiated in the form of the directive. By contrast with some of these other approaches, the UK Government place a high priority on implementing producer responsibility in a way which the UK industry itself feels can be operated effectively. This will help to minimise the burden upon individual companies, maximise their freedom to choose how to meet their targets, and thereby make our environmental objectives more readily attainable. I am therefore announcing today that the Government have accepted the industry view that a shared legal obligation is the right way forward. I am now satisfied that this approach will enable us to meet the environmental standards which people increasingly expect industry to adopt, which our national commitment to sustainable development requires of us, and which would achieve the flexible targets which we successfully negotiated within the EU's packaging directive. In the near future I propose to publish draft regulations under the Environment Act 1995 that will give effect to 15 December agreement and to guide this process I recently asked Sir Peter Parker to chair an advisory committee comprising some of the senior business representatives most closely involved in developing producer responsibility for packaging. I am announcing separately the terms of reference, membership and initial tasks of the advisory committee and its future role in monitoring and reviewing the operation of the regulations. In the light of the work already undertaken by the committee on implementation of the 15 December agreement, I propose to include in the draft regulations the following elements: (i) A method of calculation of individual business or scheme obligations. Any business covered by the regulations will need to be able to work out what its recycling and recovery obligation would be, so as to decide whether to perform that on its own or join a collective scheme. The business would need to measure the tonnage of packaging which it manufactures or fills or sells or supplies. It would then apply the following percentages which, on current data and assumptions, are consistent with the 15 December agreement. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Per cent. Packaging raw material manufacture 6 Conversion 11 Packing and filling 36 Retailing/supplying 47 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Importers would be treated on a comparable basis. (ii) A phased approach to meeting the targets: an initial requirement, from 1996, for businesses or collective schemes to provide data and information to the Environment Agency; a second stage requirement, from 1998, to provide evidence that recycling and recovery is being achieved, initially to 1998 targets and then the full directive targets in 2001. (iii) A cut off by which businesses using less than 50 tonnes packaging a year would be exempt from the quantified legal obligation (it is estimated that 90 per cent. of businesses-- which account for less than 10 per cent. of total packaging-- would be below this threshold). Further consideration is being given to other means by which such businesses could help to contribute to higher levels of recycling and recovery. This approach is intended to give businesses as much flexibility as possible, particularly in the early years, and create confidence that the targets will be achieved. In consulting on the regulations we will be seeking further business views on costs and practicality of the systems proposed so as to minimise compliance costs and limit the regulatory framework to the minimum. The industry now needs to turn its attention to developing more detailed plans for the formation of industry-led collective exemption schemes, such as VALPAK. Such schemes will need to satisfy UK and EC competition criteria. Many, if not most, businesses will no doubt continue to feel that participation in such schemes provides the simplest and cheapest means of meeting their obligations. The producer responsibility initiative marks important new ground in environmental policy-making and provides a remarkable example of effective Government-industry collaboration. A shared approach to our national war on waste will boost recycling across the country, foster many new ways of putting waste to work and maximise our recovery of scarce resources. A new market will be created, and the environment will be a chief beneficiary. I pay tribute to the many individuals and companies from all sectors of the packaging chain who by rising to this demanding challenge have played an important part in putting the nation on the path to sustainable development.

Date

7 May 1996

Reference

28443; 277 c73-5W

House

House of Commons

Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

SI 1996/1092 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 18 April 1996.

Department

Department of the Environment

Type

Statutory instruments

Date

18 April 1996

Reference

SI 1996/1092

House

House of Commons; House of Lords

Report on Census of Production 1993 on manufacture of wooden containers. (Business Monitor PA 464).

Type

Unprinted papers

Date

1 April 1996

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

How many cases of hospital admissions are due to ailments caused by children ingesting pharmaceutical products they have extracted from blister-packs in the last year for which figures are available.

Asked by

Denis MacShane (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

25 March 1996

Reference

21823; 274 c424W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

What consultations have taken place with (a) consumers' and (b) child-safety organisations about child safety in respect of blister-packs of pharmaceutical products.

Asked by

Denis MacShane (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 March 1996

Reference

21782; 274 c379W

House

House of Commons

Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) Regulations 1996

SI 1996/694 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 1 April 1996. (CCA in library).

Department

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Type

Statutory instruments

Date

11 March 1996

Reference

SI 1996/694

House

House of Commons; House of Lords

Dept of the Environment

What are his latest estimates of the percentage of (a) paper, (b) glass, (c) aluminium and (d) iron currently recycled in the United Kingdom; and what are the Government's targets for the year 2000.

Asked by

Alan W Williams (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 February 1996

Reference

15535; 272 c276W;272 c257W

House

House of Commons

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