Text file: 36.txt
author: Mare Dolenc
downvotes: 4
end consideration date: 2009-12-10
id: '36'
number comments: 12
number views: 8274
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: 'Response from the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning

  The Environmental Protection Act must be taken into account when adopting by-laws
  in the field of waste management. The Waste Management Act stipulates that environmental
  pollution is taxed by means of environmental charges. The basis for determining
  such a levy is the type, quantity or characteristic of the waste or the content
  of environmentally harmful substances in the raw material, intermediate product
  or product. All packaging placed on the market in the Republic of Slovenia is therefore
  subject to an environmental charge in accordance with the Regulation on the environmental
  charge for environmental pollution caused by packaging waste. Packaging made of
  polyvinyl chloride or polymers made of other halogenated olefins will be subject
  to an environmental levy 1 500 times higher than for other types of packaging from
  2011 onwards. At the same time, packaging made of biodegradable materials will pay
  10 times less environmental tax than other types of packaging.

  The management of packaging and packaging waste is laid down in the Regulation on
  the Management of Packaging and Packaging Waste (hereinafter: the Regulation). This
  Regulation transposes the requirements of Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging
  waste into our legal order. Article 18 of that Directive provides that Member States
  shall not impede the placing on the market, in their territory, of packaging which
  complies with the provisions of that Directive. This provision should be taken into
  account with particular care when planning any national measures to prohibit particular
  products in the territory of a Member State. If such a prohibition were to apply
  expressly to products authorised by Directive 94/62/EC, it would be contrary to
  Article 18 of that Directive.

  Packaging may be placed on the market in the Republic of Slovenia provided that
  it meets the requirements concerning the manufacture and composition of the packaging
  and its suitability for re-use and recovery, including recycling, as laid down in
  the Regulation. Compliance with these requirements is demonstrated by a declaration
  of conformity, which must be drawn up in accordance with the applicable standards
  (SIST EN).

  The Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning therefore considers that an
  additional tax on each type of packaging is not necessary. The legislation lays
  down in full detail the obligations of all actors involved in the packaging life
  cycle, from production, placing on the market and use, to the final handling of
  packaging waste (recycling, recovery, disposal). The introduction of a new tax,
  and in particular of such a high tax on non-recyclable plastic packaging as proposed
  in Proposal 36, would undoubtedly hinder the placing on the market of this type
  of packaging.'
response date: 2010-01-19
response due date: null
sent date: 2009-11-11
title: Tax on plastic packaging
upvotes: 16
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/36
