Part 3: Waste and Resource Efficiency Section 52: Resource efficiency information
This section gives effect to Schedule 6, which gives the relevant national authority the power to make regulations that set requirements for manufacturers and producers to provide information about the resource efficiency of their products. The purpose of the power is to enable the regulation of products that have a significant impact on the natural environment at any stage of their lifecycle, with the object of reducing that impact primarily through ensuring consumers are supplied with information about the resource efficiency of those products in order to drive more sustainable consumption. Regulations may impose requirements on any person connected with a product’s supply chain, and in relation to any type of product other than some specified exceptions.
	Subsection (1) sets out that the Schedule is divided into two parts. Part 1 gives power to the relevant national authority to make regulations about requiring resource efficiency information. Part 2 gives the relevant national authority power to make regulations about the enforcement of these information requirements.
	Subsection (2) defines the "relevant national authority" in each territory.
	Subsection (3) makes clear that regulations made under Schedule 6 by either Welsh Ministers, Scottish Ministers or Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs can only contain provisions that are within their legislative competence.
	Subsection (4) makes clear that the Secretary of State must obtain the consent of the appropriate national authority before making provisions in regulations that fall under the legislative competence of another national authority.
	Subsection (5) states that regulations under Schedule 6 are subject to affirmative procedure.
	This section and Schedule 6 extend and apply to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.