The Environment Agency in UK has published an official Packaging Producer Responsibility Monitoring Plan 2019.

The aim is to monitor businesses that are affected by the Packaging Producer Responsibility Regulations and to identify producers that do not meet their legal obligations.

Among other activities, the Environment Agency plans to:

• review and validate all direct registration applications
• identify and contact those producers who have not registered or renewed their registration
• bring them back into compliance, if necessary.

Producers that met the criteria according to the Packaging Producer Responsibility Regulations in the previous year are obliged to register by 7th April of the following year. The registration has to be renewed annually.