Environmental Protection (Microbeads) (England) Regulations 2017 (S.I. No. 1312 of 2017).

These Regulations prohibit the use of microbeads as an ingredient in the manufacture of rinse off personal care products and the sale of any such products containing microbeads (regulation 3). Breach of these prohibitions is an offence. A person who, in the manufacture of any rinse-off personal care product, uses microbeads as an ingredient of that product or a person who supplies, or offers to supply, any rinse-off personal care product containing microbeads is guilty of an offence.