Publication - Impact assessment

EU single use plastics directive consultation: partial business and regulatory impact 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: 9781800041721

Partial Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA) for proposed market restrictions on problematic single-use plastic items and all oxo-degradable products as identified in Article 5 of the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive (EU) 2019/904.

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1 European Single-use Plastics Directive

2 Making Things Last

3 Zero Waste Plan

4 Safeguarding Scotland's Resources

5 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2020/154/contents/made

6 EPECOM

7 Expert Panel Recommendation

8 https://www.gov.scot/publications/ending-throwaway-culture-five-principles-tackling-single-use-items/

9 2019 Great British Beach Clean data, Marine Conservation Society

10 National Performance Framework

11 National Outcome: We value and enjoy our built environment and protect it and enhance it for future generations

12 National Outcome: We reduce the local and global environmental impact of our consumption and production

13 NPF

14 CC Scotland Act 2019

15 UN Sustainable Development Goals

16 Programme for Government 2020-21

17 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 (Welsh Government, 2020). Figures used for Wales were scaled to Scotland using 2018 population of 5.438 million.

18 No beverage containers made of EPS/XPS have been identified other than cups.

19 Global Impacts of Marine Plastic

20 Assessment of measures - single use plastics

21 CMA

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