S.L. 549.141 Art. 5The Extended Producer Responsibility Consultative Committee.

(1) The Minister shall set up an Extended Producer

Responsibility Consultative Committee to act as an advisor to the

Authority.

(2) It shall be the function of the EPR Consultative Committee, inter alia, to:

(a) assist the Authority in ensuring a regular dialogue between relevant stakeholders involved in the implementation of extended producer responsibility schemes, including producers and distributors, producer responsibility organisations, private or public waste operators, local authorities, civil society organizations and, where applicable, social economy actors, re-use and repair networks and preparing for re-use operators;

(b) assist the Authority in matters relating to compliance of producers of products and PROs with these regulations, as well as compliance with extended producer responsibility schemes established nationally or at European Union level;

(c) assist the Authority in ensuring that producers of products and PROs fully comply with the general minimum requirements for extended producer responsibility schemes referred to in regulation 6;

(d) aid in investigations led by the Authority in line with regulation 7;

(e) advise the Authority on the distribution or allocation of Local Councils among producers, or, where the obligations of individual producers are to be achieved collectively, between producer responsibility organisations, where extended producer responsibility schemes require that producers or PROs are to make the necessary arrangements with Local Councils for the collection and management of waste; and

(f) perform any additional functions as may from time to time be assigned to it by the Minister in consultation with the Authority.

(3) The Minister shall appoint representatives to serve as members of the EPR Consultative Committee. The EPR Consultative Committee shall be composed as follows:

(a) two members representing the Environment and Resources Authority;

(b) one member representing the Circular Economy Malta;

(c) one member representing the Department for Local Government; and

(d) any other member as the Minister may deem fit.

(4) The Minister shall appoint a Chairperson and a Deputy Chairperson from amongst the members of the EPR Consultative Committee provided that the Chairperson shall be one of the members listed in sub-regulation (3)(a).

(5) The Minister shall appoint a Secretary to the EPR Consultative Committee.

(6) The members of the EPR Consultative Committee shall hold office for such period, being not more than three years, as may be specified in the letter appointing them and if no such period is specified, shall remain in office for three years. The members so appointed may be re-appointed for other terms by the Minister on the expiry of their term.

(7) The EPR Consultative Committee shall meet at least ten

(10) times every year, either at the request of the Chairperson of the EPR Consultative Committee or at the request of any other two members of the EPR Consultative Committee representing different competent authorities.

(8) At any meeting referred to in sub-regulation (7), the EPR Consultative Committee may act notwithstanding any absence or vacancy amongst its members provided there is a quorum consisting of the Chairperson or the Deputy Chairperson, and at least three other members.

(9) The meetings of the EPR Consultative Committee shall be chaired by the Chairperson or in his absence by the Deputy Chairperson.

(10) It shall be the joint duty of the members constituting the EPR Consultative Committee to ensure that the overall functions of the Consultative Committee are carried out in close collaboration and as efficiently as possible in accordance to their designated responsibilities.

(11) The EPR Consultative Committee shall regulate its own procedures and the Authority shall lead in coordinating the administrative procedures of the EPR Consultative Committee.