Part 3: Waste and Resource Efficiency Section 53: Resource efficiency requirements
This section gives effect to Schedule 7, which gives the relevant national authority the power to make regulations that set resource efficiency requirements that products are required to meet. 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 setting requirements relating to durability, reparability and recyclability, and the recycled content of products and materials. 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 resource efficiency standards. Part 2 will give the relevant national authority power to make regulations about the enforcement of these standards.
	Subsection (2) defines the "relevant national authority" in the same way as in section 50.
	Subsection (3) makes clear that regulations made under this Schedule by either Welsh Ministers, Scottish Ministers or the 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 made under this Schedule are subject to the affirmative procedure.
	This section and Schedule 7 extend and apply to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.