Part 3: Waste and Resource Efficiency Section 50: Producer responsibility obligations
Section 50 introduces Schedule 4, which allows the relevant national authority to make regulations about producer responsibility obligations and the enforcement of those regulations.
	Subsections (2) and (3) set out who the "relevant national authority" is. This is the Secretary of State in relation to England, the Scottish Ministers in relation to Scotland, the Welsh Minsters in relation to Wales, and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in relation to Northern Ireland. The Secretary of State may make regulations on behalf of Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland, but only with the relevant Minister’s or Department’s consent.
	Subsections (4) and (5) make provision for regulations made under this Schedule to be subject to the affirmative resolution procedure, unless the regulations contain only provision for, or in connection with, varying targets, in which case they are subject to the negative resolution procedure.
	Subsection (6) repeals the current primary legislation that deals with producer responsibility in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. That legislation is replaced by this section and Schedule 4.