These Regulations amend the 1997 Regulations which imposed on producers, and, on their behalf, operators of schemes, obligations to recover and recycle specified tonnages of packaging waste, and related obligations, in order to attain the targets in Article 6(1) of Directive 94/62/EC which had to be met in 2001. A revision of the Directive which will set new targets to be met in 2008 is presently being negotiated and is expected to be agreed by the end of 2003. In order to ensure that the absence of targets higher than those presently in the 1997 Regulations does not prejudice the United Kingdom`s ability to increase its rates of recovery and recycling sufficiently to meet the new Directive targets in 2008, these Regulations set interim domestic targets and recovery and recycling obligations which take account of the probable new targets which the United Kingdom is likely to have to meet in 2008. Regulation 4 makes amendments to regulation 2 of the 1997 Regulations by way of inserting a number of new definitions and amending others. Regulation 5 introduces a new obligation of operators of schemes to take reasonable steps to discharge the recovery and recycling obligations which the members of the schemes would have had but for their membership of the schemes. Regulation 6 makes a number of amendments to Part III concerning registration. Regulation 7 introduces rights of appeal for producers and for reprocessors and exporters. Regulation 8 inserts a new Part IVA into the 1997 Regulations in order to require the accreditation of reprocessors and exporters to issue packaging waste recovery notes and packaging waste export recovery notes. Regulation 9 amends Part V in order to require additional records and returns to be submitted to the appropriate Agency by producers and scheme operators. Regulation 10 amends Part VI in relation with monitoring obligations. Regulation 11 amends Part X in order to introduce new offences for which operators of schemes, scheme members, reprocessors and exporters may be liable, etc.