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Packaging and Waste Packaging Regulations: Avoid Penalties – Join Green MT now
20 February 2011
The Malta Chamber of Small and Meduim Enterprises, GRTU, set up Green MT with the aim of aiding Small and Meduim Sized Enterprises to oblige to their new environmental legislation. Accordingly Packaging and Waste Packaging has become an extended producer's responsability since March 01, 2007 in Malta through legal Notice 277 of 2006.
Tremendous efforts have been made by GRTU and its National Executive Council to put in place the related legislation and accompanying legislation which relates to exemptions from Eco Contribution. As always stated, Eco Contribution continues to be the most haphazard and crudest tax ever introduced to the business community in Malta.
At the time of writing, a number of producers, 570, (companies or individual traders who place packaging waste on the market on a first -time basis for commercial purposes) have taken related steps to come in line with Legal Notice 277 of 2006. This article is directed towards those who have as yet not taken up their responsability in respect to this legislation. Whilst GRTU is duty bound to advice both its members and the remaining business community that they have a responsibility towards the environment and also their own businesses.
Those ‘producers' who are not members of an Authorised Waste Packaging Scheme are risking penalties in a number of ways very shortly unless they come in line. If you are reading this article today and as a producer you are still not compliant with the law, we urge you to come forward now and take immediate steps to register with Green MT so that we can provide all related information in relation to this legislation.
