85Packaging for which brand owners and retailers responsible

85 Packaging for which brand owners and retailers responsible

85 Packaging for which brand owners and retailers responsible

(cf definition of “person’s packaging” (in clause 46G(1)) and clause 46I(2) and (3) of 2005 Reg)

For the purposes of this Part, a person who is a brand owner or retailer of consumer products is responsible for the following packaging—

(a) in the case of a brand owner—all packaging made of any material (or any combination of materials) for containing, protecting, marketing and handling the products (including any packaging materials used to transport the products to a retailer, but not including packaging provided by a retailer to a consumer for transporting the products from the retailer), or

(b) in the case of a retailer—plastic bags that the retailer provides to consumers for transporting the products from the retailer (whether or not the retailer is a brand owner of any of the products).