S.L. 549.54 Art. 22Permit required to operate a waste batteries and accumulators collection, treatment and recycling scheme.

(1) Without prejudice to the Waste Regulations, persons who intend to operate a waste batteries and accumulators collective organisation as required under these regulations, including the collection, sorting, storage, treatment, export and recycling of waste batteries and accumulators, on behalf of producers, shall require and obtain a valid permit from the competent authority in accordance to the these regulations.

(2) Without prejudice to the Waste Regulations, an application for a permit with the competent authority, shall be accompanied by a fee of five hundred euro (€500) and the following information as applicable:

(a) a copy of the Memorandum and Articles of Association;

(b) a copy of a valid development permit issued under the Development Planning Act;

(c) a description of the proposed system which will provide for the collection, treatment and recycling of waste batteries and accumulators in accordance with the provisions of these regulations;

(d) details of any deposit-refund system or other system adopted in order to ensure the return of waste batteries and accumulators by consumers;

(e) a financial plan in relation to the proposed producer responsibility organisation;

(f) the annual weights of waste batteries and accumulators in each category to be collected, treated and recycled;

(g) the annual collection targets to be achieved under the proposed producer responsibility organisation;

(h) proposals for determining and verifying the level of recycling of waste batteries and accumulators as well as whether the recycling efficiencies referred to in Part B of Schedule 2 have been met under the proposed producer responsibility organisation, including estimations and assumptions to be made in this process;

(i) proposals for the certification of producers who will make use of the proposed producer responsibility organisation;

(j) proposals of how the information under the provisions of these regulations will be compiled and made available to the competent authority;

(k) any other relevant information requested by the competent authority.

(3) The competent authority may specify the format in which such information shall be made available.

(4) The competent authority shall make this information9 available in accordance with the Freedom of Access to Information on the Environment Regulations.

(5) A waste batteries and accumulators collective organisation that has been granted a permit shall, upon granting of the permit or renewal, be charged a fee as prescribed in Schedule 8.