Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 102923

Waste Disposal: Regulation

Tabled: 5 January 2026
Answered: 9 January 2026

Question

Nick Timothy

ConservativeWest Suffolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Environment Agency's implementation timeline for the waste registration and accreditation system.

Answer

Mary Creagh
The packaging regulations provide the Environment Agency (EA) with a statutory 12-week period to determine applications for reprocessor & exporter registration and accreditation applications. In a small number of cases the determination period is goin...

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