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Publication - Impact assessment

EU single use plastics directive consultation: fairer Scotland duty scoping assessment

Published
12 October 2020
Directorate
Environment and Forestry Directorate, +1 more … Marine Directorate
Topic
Environment and climate change, Equality and rights, Marine and fisheries
ISBN
9781800041752

This partial assessment aims to identify any impacts on those who experience socio-economic disadvantage on the introduction of new legislation to restrict the supply of seven single-use plastic items and all oxo-degradable products, in Scotland.

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Footnotes

1. Poverty & Income Inequality in Scotland: 2016-2019

2. Commission Staff Working Document Impact Assessment Reducing Marine Litter: action on single use plastics and fishing gear- Accompanying the document- Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment

3. Poverty and the Cost of Living: An Evidence Review, 2014

4. Cost of Living. Scottish Government: Communities Analysis Division – June 2017

5. Single use plastic: banning the distribution and/or sale of plastic straws, stirrers and plastic-stemmed cotton buds in England

6. Reducing single use plastic in Wales

7. Preliminary Research to Assess the Impacts of a Ban or Restrictions in Sale in Wales of Items in the EU's Single Use Plastics Directive

8. Assessment of measures to reduce marine litter from single use plastics

Contact

Email: SUPD@gov.scot

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