Environmental Protection (NEPM-UPM) Regulations 2013.

The purpose of these regulations is to require certain acts to be done for the purpose of implementing the NEPM cited as the National Environment Protection (Used Packaging Materials) Measure 2011.
Part 2 concerns responsibilities of certain brand owners, and applies to a brand owner other than a brand owner (a) who is a signatory to and complies with the Australian Packaging Covenant of July 2010; or (b) who is not a signatory but the CEO is satisfied that the brand owner uses consumer packaging in which the brand owner’s products are sold in a way that achieves environmental outcomes at least equivalent to the environmental outcomes for the packaging under the Covenant; or (c) who does not contribute significantly to the waste stream; or (d) the value of whose annual sales of the brand owner’s products is not more than a certain amount established by the Regulations. The Part requires them to prepare and submit an action plan to the CEO, achieve certain recovery rate targets for specific types of consumer packaging, keep record, etc. Part 3 requires operators of materials recovery systems to give information to the CEO after the end of each financial year concerning premises, the fee, the total weight of recyclable material collected by the system by material type, etc.