NEWSLETTER-2017

288 NEWSLETTER 2017 Furthermore, technically waste administration is substantially left to municipalities though market launchers are responsible from the financial administration of packing wastes. Draft Study on Regulation on Packing Wastes Control Considering the exigencies in the sector and the changes that have been made in the EU Acquis Communautaire the Draft Study on Regulation on Packing Wastes (“Draft Regulation”) has been prepared and it’s been submitted to the public opinion on 23rd March 2016. In the Draft Regulation the scope of regulation has been indicated as “all packing that have been released to the market and these pack- ing’s’ wastes”. Therefore, as in the current regulation, regardless of their domestic, industrial or commercial nature, all packing and pack- ing wastes that are made of plastic, metal, glass, paper-carton, com- posite and the like materials are in the scope of the Draft Regulation. Distinctly from the Regulation, in the Draft Regulation, it’s been explicitly given place to the concept of “extended producer responsibility”. Whereas the Article 4 of the Draft Regulation refers to “extended producer responsibility”, Article 9, which stipulates the packing producers’ liabilities, indicates that the first liability of the packing producer is “as part of the extended producer liability, to produce, as from the packing design phase, with the minimum waste production after the manufacture and usage, with the easiest recycling and recovery, with the most economical and the least environmentally harmful manner. Within the context of the current Directive, “Extended producer liability” means the usage of repair, reutilization, fragmentation and recycling processes and application of one of the methods that design, production and sale that favors and enables the efficient usage, in or- der to reach the aim of efficient use of resources in the free movement of the products in the market. The remarkable matter in the Draft Regulation is that different objectives have been defined for the recycling and recovery of packing wastes. Alongside the Authorized Institutions’ and the market launch- ers’, that apply the deposit system, “supply oriented” packing waste