Introduction
1.These Explanatory Notes are for the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Act 2023 which was passed by Senedd Cymru on 6 December 2022 and received Royal Assent on 6 June 2023. They have been prepared by the Climate Change and Rural Affairs Group of the Welsh Government in order to assist the reader of the Act. The Explanatory Notes should be read in conjunction with the Act but are not part of it.