Container Refund Scheme Regulations 2023

In this regulation – GS1 Standard means the GS1 General Specifications standard published, from time to time, by the not-for-profit international organization known as GS1 AISBL, registered in Belgium on 13 July 2012 with the Enterprise Number 419.640.608;GTIN barcode means a product barcode that – contains a Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) encoding; and complies with the GS1 Standard.

For the purposes of the definition of prescribed marks in section 3 of the Act, an approved container is required to display at least one of the following barcodes on the exterior of the container:a GTIN barcode that is unique to the class of approved containers, being a class of approved containers that contain a specific volume of a specific beverage, of which the approved container is a member; a product barcode that – is unique to the class of approved containers of which the approved container is a member; and complies with the EAN/UPC symbology specifications for EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A or UPC-E barcodes, as set out in the GS1 Standard; and complies with the dimensional specifications and symbol placement guidelines that apply to the class of data carriers to which the barcode belongs, as set out in the GS1 Standard; and does not duplicate a GTIN barcode or another product barcode; and is not less than 8, but not more than 14, numbers in length.

In addition to a barcode prescribed under subregulation (2), for the purposes of the definition of prescribed marks in section 3 of the Act, an approved container is required to display the following information, on the exterior of the container, in a manner that is clear and legible: