Draft circular economy strategy: partial business and regulatory impact assessment

Introduction

This draft Partial Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared to accompany a public consultation on a Draft Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland (‘the Strategy’).

The Scottish Government has considered the appropriate scope of a Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA) for the Strategy. The Strategy establishes the visions and outcomes, policy mechanisms, priority sectors, product stewardship obligations, and the monitoring and evaluation requirements of the strategy. As an overarching strategy, it sets out priorities for future policy development. Where required, the appropriate place for detailed consideration of costs and impacts in BRIA will be in the development of individual policies, regulations and schemes within associated policy areas. Therefore, this document is the Partial BRIA.

This Partial BRIA is being published alongside the public consultation on the Strategy. This will help to aid future decision making for policy teams in the Scottish Government and ensure that business and investment interests are fully considered as the Strategy is finalised. It will also assist stakeholders in understanding potential impacts of the Strategy in a standard format with which they may be familiar. It will give an opportunity through consultation for stakeholders to present views about the risks, benefits and impacts that they believe have not been properly considered in this Partial BRIA or in the Strategy. Taking account of consultation responses and feedback, a view of whether the scope of this Partial BRIA is appropriate shall be taken, and whether this document and/or the Strategy should be revised to take account of stakeholder views.