Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 29 June 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion
Mr. Paul McDonald:
To my mind, this question of contravening competition law does not arise. It is open to any corporate body that wishes to pitch for this business to seek approval to become a system operator. It is open to anybody to do that. Any such body would go through the normal stress-testing that is applied to the IFFPG. Other EPR schemes currently exist. We referred earlier to the scheme that applies for electrical equipment. There are, for example, two system operators in that space. Any corporate body that wants to set up as a system operator to rival the IFFPG would have to go through the same provisions from the point of view of corporate governance, contingency reserve funds and all of that type of stuff.
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