Producer responsibility is aimed at ensuring that businesses/producers who manufacture and/or import products and place these products on the market assume responsibility for those products; be it packaging, electrical and electronic equipment, batteries and accumulators, or vehicles; when they reach their end-of life. Based on the polluter's pays principle, producers of such products should bear some of the waste management costs of collection, sorting or treatment and recycling and/or recovery to reduce the overall impact of such waste on human health and the environment.

This approach results pursuant to the EC Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste, EC Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), EC Directive on Batteries and Accumulators and Waste Batteries and Accumulators, and EC Directive on End of Life Vehicles (ELVs). In view of the growing concern about their impact on the environment, these directives were identified as priority legislation in the European Union's Fifth Environment Action Programme.

The documents below pertain to the relevant Maltese legistlation and the European Directive it is based on as regards to Packaging.

Document Details
Number	L.N. 277 of 2006
Title	Environment Protection Act (CAP. 435) - Product Safety Act (CAP. 427), Waste Management (Packaging & Packaging Waste) Regulations 2006
Date	14th November, 2006
Comments	Published Came into force 1st March, 2007. Amended by L.N. 185 of 2011.
Attachments & Links
Maltese & English
Directive 94/62/EC of 20th December, 2004 on packaging and packaging waste as amended by Directive 2004/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11th Februray, 2004 amending Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste. N/A
Directive 2005/20/EC of 9th March, 2005 amending Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste.

Document Details
Number	L.N. 444 of 2014
Title	Environment and Development Planning Act (Cap. 504) Product Safety Act (Cap. 427) Waste Management (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations, 2014.
Date	2nd December, 2014
Comments	Published Amends LN 442 of 2012 Environment and Development Planning Act (Cap. 504) Product Safety Act (Cap. 427) Waste Management (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations, 2014.
Attachments & Links
English
Maltese
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 94/62/ECof 20 December 1994 on packaging and packaging waste

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