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Publication - Impact assessment

Digital Waste Tracking: business regulatory impact assessment

Published
28 January 2026
From
Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy
Directorate
Environment and Forestry Directorate
Topic
Economy, Environment and climate change
ISBN
9781806436897

Full business and regulatory impact assessment (BRIA) assessing the impact on Scotland of the proposals to implement a UK-wide mandatory digital waste tracking (DWT) system.

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11. Scottish firms Impact Test

175. The Waste Tracking User Panel has been used to engage with stakeholders to understand their requirements for a digital system, the potential impacts of a digital system and to test prototype digital services.

176. The user panel consists of around 1200 stakeholders, of which, 465 users operate in Scotland. The Scottish Stakeholders on the User Panel represented:

  • 91 businesses with 1-10 employees (micro-businesses),
  • 151 businesses with 11-250 (small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and
  • 201 with 250+ employees (macro-businesses)
  • SEPA
  • Local authorities (17 of the 32 Scottish local authorities represented)

177. Businesses affected include waste producers (e.g. commercial and industrial businesses) and the waste industry (e.g. waste carriers, brokers and dealers and waste treatment sites). SEPA data suggest that approx. 1% of UK-wide users will be registered in Scotland[50].The expected monetary impacts on these businesses is set out in Sections 5-8.

Contact

Email: john.ferguson@gov.scot

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