Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion

5:00 pm

Mr. Dominic Henry:

When a producer reports to the black box, his data disappears into it, so to speak. The black box calculates the visible environmental management cost, vEMC, liability of each producer and we then communicate with Repak ELT via secure communications and we give it a very simple report which shows, for instance, producer A, and the amount of the vEMC due and producer B and the amount of the vEMC due. Repak ELT will then invoice the producer for that amount that he in turn has collected from his customers. The information flows from ourselves to Repak by secure communication. Repak will invoice a producer and if the producer wishes to share that information with somebody else there is nothing that can be done but with regard to the black box itself the information is confidential. We are prohibited by law from sharing that information with any third party and the black box is prohibited from sharing it with us. We are prohibited also from sharing any data that may allow a third party to calculate the market share of a producer.