GBR/41
WTO/TBT
GB Royaume-Uni
  • 39 - Matières plastiques et ouvrages en ces matières
2021-10-22
2021-08-24

• single-use plastic expanded polystyrene beverage cups • single-use plastic expanded polystyrene beverage containers • single-use plastic expanded polystyrene food containers • single-use plastic cutlery • single-use plastic plates • single-use plastic beverage stirrers • single-use plastic straws, and • single-use plastic balloon sticks.; Tableware, kitchenware, other household articles and toilet articles, of plastics (excl. baths, shower-baths, washbasins, bidets, lavatory pans, seats and covers, flushing cisterns and similar sanitary ware) (HS 3924)

The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (9 page(s), in English)

These regulations propose introducing market restrictions – effectively a ban – for problematic single-use plastic (SUP) items in line with Article 5 of the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive (EU) 2019/904 .

The Regulations ban the supply, in the course of business, and the manufacture of:
• single-use plastic expanded polystyrene beverage cups • single-use plastic expanded polystyrene beverage containers
• single-use plastic expanded polystyrene food containers
• single-use plastic cutlery • single-use plastic plates
• single-use plastic beverage stirrers The Regulations ban the supply, in the course of a business and subject to specified exemptions of:
• single-use plastic straws
• single-use plastic balloon sticks.