Government Decree amending the Government Decision on packaging and packaging waste (No. 1025 of 2000)

Ympäristöministeriö Ref.: 02/ymp0880 Grade: 3 Printed by: typing Pages: 2 21/05/02 Due: 31/05/2002 Team: Robin Maylett, Diana Tullberg /British Home page: http://www.englishcentre.fi/ E-mail: desk@englishcentre.fi No. 1025 Government Decree amending the Government Decision on packaging and packaging waste Issued in Helsinki on November 30, 2000 In accordance with the Government Decision, made on the submission of the Ministry of the Environment, paragraphs 1 and 2 are amended under section 16 of the Government Decision on packaging and packaging waste (962/1997) of October 23, 1997, and a new paragraph 2 is added to section 2, as follows: Section 2 Scope of application - - - - - - - Neither the obligations concerning recovery of packaging waste and the relevant cost responsibility referred to in section 5 of this Decision nor the obligations referred to in sections 6 and 11, section 16(1) and section 17(1) and (2) apply to packers or other economic operators with a net operational turnover of less than 5 million Finnish marks during the year referred to in section 16(1). Section 16 Provision of monitoring data Packers must annually, by the end of September, provide the Finnish Environment Institute with data on the preceding year as laid down regarding the establishment of formats in the database system in Commission Decision ymp0880 2 (2) 97/138/EC pursuant to European Parliament and Council Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste, unless the data has been submitted to a corporation referred to in section 18(2), whose duty it is to pass the data on to the Finnish Environment Institute. In a municipal or a contractual waste transport scheme, a transporter which has recovered more than 100 tonnes of waste during the preceding year must similarly inform the Finnish Environment Institute of the quantity and quality of packaging waste it recovered. - - - - - This Decree comes into force on January 1, 2001. Helsinki, November 30, 2000 Minister of the Environment Satu Hassi Senior Government Secretary Tuomas Aarnio Announced in accordance with European Parliament and Council Directive 98/34/EC, amendments according to 98/48/EC.