As per the provisions of Plastic Waste Management Rules, Importer means “a person who imports for commercial use, any plastic packaging or any commodity with plastic packaging or carry bags or plastic sheets or like material, or plastic raw material including in the form of resin or pellets, or intermediate material to be used for manufacturing plastic packaging such as films or preforms” and all such importers are required to be registered on the EPR Plastic Portal as per Section 6 of the EPR Guidelines. The instruction directs sensitisation of officers to be aware of these new provisions.