SWEDEN: WASTE PAPER REGULATION The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif. 95.244. 1. Member to Agreement notifying: SWEDEN. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2). 2. Agency responsible: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. 3. Notified under Article 2.9.2. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Newspaper and magazine paper, telephone books and mail-order books, other similar kind of paper products. 5. Title and number of pages of the notified document: The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's Regulation on Waste Paper. 6. Description of content: The regulation covers the following areas: - Producer responsibility in order to take care of the waste newspaper, etc. in an environmentally sound manner. - Definitions of terms in line with the Swedish legislation. The term material recycling does not cover energy recovery or organic recycling. - Collection systems that are to be supplied by the producers for the consumers. - Obligation for producers to report amount of newspaper, etc. put on the market, collection, recovery and recycling of waste newspaper, etc. 7. Objective and rationale: The purpose of the regulation is to: - Direct the collecting, recovery and recycling of waste newspaper, etc. - Make it possible to follow up the producer responsibility. - Create uniform rules and guidelines for all producers. This regulation will be issued by virtue of the Swedish Ordinance concerning producer responsibility for waste paper (SFS 1994: 1205). The Ordinance came into force on 1 October 1994. 8. Relevant documents: Ordinance concerning producer responsibility for waste paper (SFS 1994: 1205). 9. Proposed date of adoption and entry into force: October 1995 and 1 January 1996. 10. Final date for comments: 16 October 1995. (242)

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