S.L. 549.134 Art. 20Registration with the Agency.

(1) Producers that are placing, or intending to place, on the market any beverage in a refillable container shall register with the Agency and shall provide the Agency with all the details that it may require for the purposes of these regulations from time to time to qualify for the necessary exemption from the Scheme.

(2) Upon registration, the producer must provide the Agency with sufficient information for the Agency to ensure that the system in place for the refillable containers in question is adequate in order to reach Malta’s recycling targets.

(3) The Agency shall charge producers placing, or intending to place, on the market any beverage in a refillable container the applicable registration fee indicated in the Fourth Schedule.

(4) Producers placing refillable containers on the market, who either no longer wish to operate the system for the refillable containers in question, or who no longer wish to reuse beverage containers shall inform the Agency accordingly and shall register with the operator pursuant to regulation 13.

(5) Any producer placing on the market beverages sold in refillable containers who fails to comply with the provisions of this regulation shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations.