PRI-LD15321-EM-A - The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill - Explana

The Bill includes a regulation-making power, to enable Welsh Ministers to add or remove a SUP product to the list of products in the Bill that are subject to the offence of supply (or offer of supply). [...] • A regulation making power, to enable Welsh Ministers to add or remove a SUP product to the list of products in the Bill that are subject to the offence of supply (or offer of supply). [...] • A requirement on the Welsh Ministers to report under section 79(2) of the Government of Wales Act 2006 on the consideration they have given to whether to exercise the regulation making power: • to add further products to the list of prohibited single-use plastic products in Schedule 1 to the Bill that are subject to the offence of supply (or offer to supply). [...] Power to make subordinate legislation 5.1: The Bill contains provisions to make subordinate legislation as follows: • A power to allow the Welsh Ministers to make regulations to amend the Schedule— (a) to add or remove a prohibited single-use plastic product in column 1 of the Table in paragraph 1; (b) to add, remove or amend an exemption in column 2 of the Table in paragraph 1; (c) to add, remove. [...] 7.2.18 It should be noted the data used for impact modelling, does not account for the likely changes in the supply market following the introduction of the EU’s Single Use Plastic Directive, regulations banning the supply of SUP straws, stirrers and cotton buds in England or the COVID-19 pandemic.