These include:
Allowing online retailers, and others selling through a distance sale, to refuse to accept a return of a disproportionately large number of containers in a single transaction;
Clarifying that, for products that are filled and sealed in a retail or hospitality setting, for example the kind of can known as a ‘crowler’, the person filling and sealing them will be the producer and bear responsibility for their collection;
Providing that a producer that is a producer only by virtue of filling and sealing crowlers is exempt from the annual fee to register with SEPA, and changing this fee from £360 to £365 for eligible producers to cover the cost of regulating these additional producers;
Creating a duty for wholesalers or others selling articles not intended for sale in Scotland to disclose at point of sale that the items are not intended for sale in Scotland and cannot be returned for a deposit, which will help to prevent fraud;
Adjusting SEPA’s enforcement powers in line with SEPA’s existing powers in the Environment Act 1995, which will help ensure effective enforcement of DRS.