Appendix V
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RETAILER OBLIGATIONS
The Regulations must require to a retailer to apply to the Approved Body for membership of the DRS Scheme and prescribe the manner and format of such application. In addition, they must require the Retailer to engaged with the Approved Body to ensure it puts in place appropriate measures including infrastructure to ensure effective collection of PET / aluminium cans at the outlet. It should be an offence to fail to comply with these obligations.
However, in order to avoid the danger of fraud the Regulations should impose a daily ‘cap’ on the number of PET / aluminium cans that may be accepted by a retail outlet within a 12 hour period. This daily limit should be imposed following consultation with the Approved Body and relevant stakeholders.This Regulations must also include an obligation to require acceptance of PET / aluminium cans irrespective of their origin. They must preclude a retailer from limiting collection of PET /aluminium cans at its outlet to that purchased from its outlet. Failure to comply with these requirements must be subject to appropriate sanction.
The Regulations must contain an obligation on retailers to ensure it puts in place appropriate and effective measures including infrastructure to enable customers to collect a deposit following deposit of PET /aluminium cans at its outlet. This includes complying with any requirements imposed by the Approved Body in respect of the manner of refund, which must be specified by the Minister.The Regulations should also impose an obligation on retailers to co-operate with the Approved Body in the promotion of the Scheme, display any approved logo and take such measures as may be prescribed by it to ensure its participation in the scheme is actively promoted to customers at its outlet. A retailer should be obliged by the Regulations to display its certificate of participation in the DRS Scheme at its outlet, in a manner which is visible to customers of the outlet. A general obligation should be imposed on retailers to actively promote the Scheme and comply with all reasonable directions from the Approved Body in this regard.The Regulations must also require that a Retailer furnish such information, in such form and at such frequency and in such format as may be specified by a local authority, the EPA, the Approved Body or the Central Statistics Office, in relation to activities carried out by it, for the purposes of complying with the Regulations. Failure to comply with this obligation should be made an offence in the Regulations.