
2025 No. 708 (W. 121)
Environmental Protection, Wales
The Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
Made 17 June 2025
Laid before Senedd Cymru 18 June 2025
Coming into force 19 June 2025

The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 140(1)(c) and (d), and (3)(c) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (“the 1990 Act”).

The Welsh Ministers—
(a) consider it appropriate to make these Regulations for the purpose of preventing the articles specified in them from causing pollution of the environment and harm to the health of animals;
(b) have published a notice in the London Gazette and the Western Mail, in accordance with section 140(6)(b) of the 1990 Act, and have considered the representations made in accordance with that notice, as required by section 140(6)(c) of the 1990 Act.
Title and coming into force
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(1) The title of these Regulations is the Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2025.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 19 June 2025.
Amendment of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (Wales) Regulations 2024
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(1) The Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (Wales) Regulations 2024 are amended as follows.
(2) After regulation 10(1)(j)(iv), insert—“
(v) to ensure that it is retained for the purpose of compliance with any direction given by the Welsh Ministers under regulation 12”.
Huw Irranca-Davies
Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, one of the Welsh Ministers
17 June 2025