Defra is managing this consultation process on behalf of the UK, Scottish and Welsh Governments and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland.
Whilst waste policy is a devolved matter, the UK Government and devolved administrations have agreed to work together to develop a UK wide waste tracking service to provide a seamless system across the UK.
The Environment Act 2021 provides Governments across the United Kingdom with the powers to introduce regulations to establish an electronic system for tracking waste.
The legislation allows for those regulations to require certain information relevant to waste tracking to be recorded onto the system and contain provisions on several areas including:
- accessing the data on the waste tracking system
- fees and charges
- exemptions and alternative requirements for digitally excluded persons
- offences and sanctions.
The purpose of this consultation is to present and seek thoughts on the proposals for this. The feedback will be used to review and refine the proposals which will then be reflected in secondary legislation and shape the digital design of the waste tracking service.
The consultation closed on 15th April 2022 and the FUW response can be found here.