Part 2Product stewardship
Accreditation of product stewardship schemes
14Requirements for accreditation
To qualify for accreditation, a product stewardship scheme must—
- identify the scheme manager:
- provide a description of the scope of the scheme, including the product or brand of product to which it applies:
- set—
- measurable waste minimisation, treatment, or disposal objectives for the product; and
- time frames for meeting the objectives:
- measurable waste minimisation, treatment, or disposal objectives for the product; and
- list the classes of person involved in the design, manufacture, sale, use, servicing, collection, recovery, recycling, treatment, and disposal of the product:
- list the persons who have agreed to participate in the scheme and assign responsibility to them for meeting the scheme’s objectives:
- specify the arrangements for—
- making decisions under the scheme:
- the control and overall operation of the scheme:
- keeping records and making reports under the scheme:
- making decisions under the scheme:
- specify the scheme’s expiry date:
- identify the processes for compliance and enforcement of any agreements between participants to the scheme:
- provide for assessing the scheme’s performance and for reporting on its performance to the Minister:
- set out a strategy for publication of the scheme:
- set out how information will be provided to purchasers, users, and handlers of the product to which the scheme relates:
- clearly outline how the scheme is to be funded.


