HC Deb 17 October 1991 vol 196 c186W
Mr. Andrew F. Bennett

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what steps Her Majesty's Government are taking to implement the EEC draft direction on minimum packaging and reusable liquid containers.

Mr. Baldry

The European Commission has not yet brought forward a formal proposal for a directive on packaging and packaging waste. Consideration as to how such a directive might be implemented is therefore premature. However, the Government are already discussing the issue of packaging waste with the packaging industry and others, in line with the policies set out in our White Paper on the environment "This Common Inheritance", Cm. 1200, September 1990.