Publication - Impact assessment

Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Scotland) Regulations 2021: equality impact assessment - final

Published: 11 November 2021
From: Lorna Slater MSP
Directorate: Environment and Forestry Directorate
Part of: Environment and climate change
ISBN: 9781802016116

We published a partial equality impact assessment during the public consultation on the introduction of market restrictions on problematic single-use items in Scotland, which took place between 12/10/202 and 04/01/2021. This EQIA expands that work with additional research, data, and evidence.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1. EU single use plastics directive consultation: partial equality impact assessment

2. EU single use plastics directive consultation: partial equality impact assessment

3. European Parliament and Council Directive 94/62/EC of 20 December 1994 on packaging and packaging waste

4. European Parliament and Council Directive 94/62/EC of 20 December 1994 on packaging and packaging waste

5. Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices

6. Council Directive 90/385/EEC of 20 June 1990 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to active implantable medical devices

7. Equality Act 2010

8. Scottish Household Survey

9. Projected Population of Scotland (2016-based)

10. Scotland's Census

11. Consultation on proposals to ban the distribution and/or sale of plastic straws, plastic-stemmed cotton buds and plastic drink stirrers in England

12. Social model of disability summary

13. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2015-18.

14. Vancouver- plastic straw alternatives

15. Scotland’s Litter Problem - Quantifying the scale and cost of litter and flytipping

16. A Preliminary assessment of the economic, environmental and social impacts of a potential ban on plastic balloon sticks, plastic plates and plastic cutlery

17. The Equality Act 2010

Contact

Email: supd@gov.scot

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