Question reference: S1W-00016
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 1 June 1999
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Current status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 15 June 1999
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to provide the Parliament with an estimate of the likely additional costs to Scotland's fish processing industry of measures proposed to implement the European Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC) as soon as possible after 1 July.
Answer
I understand that the water authorities have been consulting industrial dischargers, including the fish processing industry, about the effects of implementing the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive. Much of the fish processing industry is in the area covered by the North of Scotland Water Authority, which has provided individual firms with estimates of the charge increases they will face over the next three years, if they take no action to reduce the amount and strength of the effluent they produce. I understand that the fish processing industry, with assistance from the North of Scotland Water Authority, local authorities, Grampian Enterprise Company and the Seafish Industry Authority, has commissioned consultants to report by August on ways to reduce these charges.