Regulation 5 Review

After regulation 11 insert—

“Duty to Review Regulations

12.

(1)

The Secretary of State must from time to time—

(a)

carry out a review of these Regulations;

(b)

set out the conclusions of the review in a report; and

(c)

publish the report.

(2)

In carrying out the review the Secretary of State must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how Council Directive 1999/94/EC of 13th December 1999 relating to the availability of consumer information on fuel economy and CO₂ emissions in respect of the marketing of new passenger cars^f1 (which is implemented by means of these Regulations) is implemented in other member States.

(3)

The report must in particular—

(a)

set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory system established by these Regulations;

(b)

assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved; and

(c)

assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.

(4)

The first report under this regulation must be published before 11th February 2018.

(5)

Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years.”.