{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-waste-tracking-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-waste-tracking-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-29.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2026/105",
  "legislation_title": "The Digital Waste Tracking (Wales) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-waste-tracking-wales-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/29",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Information sharing",
  "text": "(1) Any information held by the designated person or Natural Resources Wales under these Regulations may be shared with a body listed in paragraph (2) for the purposes set out in paragraph (3).\n(2) The bodies are—\n(a) a responsible authority;\n(b) a public authority;\n(c) a competent authority;\n(d) the scheme administrator.\n(3) The purposes are—\n(a) for a responsible authority, enforcement functions relating to the electronic tracking of waste;\n(b) for a public authority, functions relating to the prevention or management of waste or waste related crime;\n(c) for a competent authority, the law enforcement purposes;\n(d) for the scheme administrator, functions conferred on it by the 2024 Regulations.\n(4) In this regulation—\n“the 2018 Act” (“Deddf 2018”) means the Data Protection Act 2018;\n“the 2024 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 2024”) mean the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024;\n“competent authority” (“awdurdod cymwys”) has the same meaning as in section 30(1) of the 2018 Act;\n“the law enforcement purposes” (“y dibenion gorfodi’r gyfraith”) has the same meaning as in section 31 of the 2018 Act;\n“public authority” (“awdurdod cyhoeddus”) has the same meaning as in section 7(1) of the 2018 Act;\n“responsible authority” (“awdurdod cyfrifol”) means—\n(a) Natural Resources Wales;\n(b) the Environment Agency;\n(c) the Scottish Environment Protection Agency;\n(d) the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland;\n“scheme administrator” (“gweinyddwr y cynllun”) means the person appointed under regulation 58 of the 2024 Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2018 c. 12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2024/1332, amended by S.I. 2025/1361."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 7(1) was amended by S.I. 2019/419."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/105/regulation/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:54:51.092329+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}