Assessment of compliance with the targets
8.—(1) Within five calendar months of the end of each target financial year, and each subsequent financial year until the next target financial year, the monitoring authority must provide to the Welsh Ministers—
(a)its monitoring information; and
(b)a report containing the information set out in paragraph (3).
(2) The monitoring information and the report must contain information covering the last financial year.
(3) The report must contain the following information—
(a)the total amount of municipal waste arising for each local authority;
(b)the total amount of municipal waste validated by the monitoring authority that has been recycled, prepared for re-use, and composted;
(c)the recycling, preparation for re-use and composting rates for each local authority;
(d)the difference between the target amount for recycling, preparation for re-use and composting rates and the actual rate achieved by each local authority; and
(e)the difference between the target amount for recycling, preparation for re-use and composting rates and the actual rate achieved by all the local authorities, taken as a whole.
(4) In this regulation “monitoring information” means the information or evidence acquired by the monitoring authority in carrying out its functions under regulation 3(2).