Deposit return scheme for Scotland: business and regulatory impact assessment

13.0 Summary and Recommendations

This document is the final Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA), which is a development of the partial BRIA published in June 2018 and the full BRIA published in July 2019. It is written subject to the best available information at the time. It is recommended that the Scottish Government introduces a deposit return scheme for Scotland. The draft of The Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland Regulations 2020^[77] was laid before the Scottish Parliament in September 2019 for a 91-day representation period. The final Regulations were introduced in 2020.