Amendment of the Detergents Regulations 2010
3. After regulation 30 insert—
“Review
31.—(1) Before the end of each review period, the Secretary of State must—
(a)carry out a review of these Regulations as they apply to England;
(b)set out the conclusions of the review in a report; and
(c)publish the report.
(2) In carrying out the review the Secretary of State must, so far as reasonable, have regard to how Regulation 648/2004 is implemented in other Member States.
(3) The report must in particular—
(a)set out the objectives intended to be achieved by these Regulations;
(b)assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved; and
(c)assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved in a less burdensome way.
(4) In this regulation “review period” means the period of five years beginning with 30th June 2013, and, subject to paragraph (5), each successive period of five years.
(5) If a report under this regulation is published before the last day of the review period to which it relates, the following review period is to begin with the day on which that report is published.”.