New clause 10 - Strategies for incineration: Scotland
Waste and Emissions Trading Bill [Lords]
5:51 pm

'(1) The Scottish Ministers must have a strategy for assessing the environmental and health impacts from incinerators.

(2) The Scottish Ministers will set out in legislation:

(a) that all currently operating incinerators will begin continuous monitoring of dioxin emissions;

(b) that waste disposal authorities must produce waste strategies that do not require the building of new incinerators.

(3) Before formulating policy for the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), the Scottish Ministers must—

(a) consult the Secretary of State, the National Assembly for Wales, the Department of the Environment and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency,

(b) consult such bodies or persons appearing to them to be representative of the interests of local government as they consider appropriate,

(c) consult such bodies or persons appearing to them to be representative of the interests of industry as they consider appropriate, and

(d) carry out such public consultation as they consider appropriate.

(4) The Scottish Ministers must set out in a statement any policy formulated for the purposes of subsections (1) and (2).

(5) The Scottish Ministers must, as soon as a statement is prepared for the purposes of subsection (4), send a copy of it to—

(a) the Secretary of State,

(b) the National Assembly for Wales, and

(c) the Department of the Environment.'.