In this Notice any word or expression to which a meaning has been assigned in the Act and in the Extended Producer Responsibility Regulations 2020, bears that meaning, and unless the context indicates otherwise—

"brand owner"

means a person, category of persons or company who makes and/or sells any product under a brand label;

"extended producer responsibility"

means that a producers responsibility for their product is extended to the post- consumer stage of a product's life cycle;

"importer"

means a person or category of persons that bring finished goods or their individual components into the country from abroad;

"lighting equipment"

means electrical or electronic equipment used for producing artificial light or illumination, and also includes any peripherals of the lighting bodies such as luminaires, switch components, ballasts, fixtures and modules;

"producer"

means any person or category of persons or a brand owner who is engaged in the commercial manufacture, conversion, refurbishment or import of new and/or used electrical and electronic equipment as identified by the Minister by Notice in the Government Gazette in terms of section 18(1) of the Act;

"producer responsibility organisation"

means a not-for-profit organisation established by any person operating in any of the industrial sectors covered in this Notice to support the implementation of their extended producer responsibility scheme;

"refurbishment"

means restoring old products to a working condition which must be available for reuse and which restores its original function;

[Definition inserted by section 14(a) of Notice No. 400, GG44539, dated 5 May 2021]

"the Act"

means the National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008 (Act No. 59 of 2008); and

"the Regulations"

means the Extended Producer Responsibility Regulations, 2020 issued under section 69(1)(b), (g), (i), (o), (l), (dd) and (ee) of the Act.