Amendment of Schedule 1 to the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 20202

In Schedule 1 to the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (exclusions from market access principles), after paragraph 12 there is inserted—

Single-use plastic items

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1

The United Kingdom market access principles do not apply to (and sections 2(3) and 5(3) do not affect the operation of) legislation so far as it prohibits the sale of—

a

single-use plastic straws;

b

single-use plastic stemmed cotton buds;

c

single-use plastic drink stirrers;

d

single-use plastic plates;

e

single-use plastic cutlery or chopsticks;

f

single-use plastic balloon sticks;

g

single-use food containers, drink containers or cups made wholly or partly from expanded or extruded polystyrene.

2

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—

a

a “single-use” item means an item which is not designed or intended to be re-used;

b

a “single-use plastic” item means a single-use item which is made wholly or partly from plastic.