- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason it has not included sites of special scientific interest and Ramsar sites within the scope of its draft regulations on the transposition of the EU environmental liability directive into Scots law.
Answer
The Environmental Liability Directive (2004/35/CE) covers only those sites mentioned in the draft Regulations. Other sites are already adequately dealt with under other regimes.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that omitting sites of special scientific interest and Ramsar sites from protection under the EU environmental liability directive will cause confusion between operators and authorities, and among authorities themselves, where responsibility overlaps or covers certain aspects of a site but not all of it and, if so, whether it considers that including such sites would alleviate these potential problems.
Answer
We are confident the draft Regulations may be properly applied.
No. We do not believe there will be confusion. The majority of respondents to our first public consultation exercise including Scottish Natural Heritage were not in favour of including SSSIs in our Regulations.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that sites of special scientific interest and Ramsar sites will be given second class status among sites of biodiversity and ecological importance if they are not protected under the EU environmental liability directive.
Answer
No. Sites of special scientific interest and Ramsar sites are adequately covered under existing regimes, where protected sites will not be affected by the new regime. The Environmental Liability Directive (2004/35/CE) does not require that sites of special interest and Ramsar sites be covered by transposing legislation.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to change the regulations to transpose the EU environmental liability directive into Scots law from establishing environmental damage from conservation status to a measure of site integrity, in light of suggestions by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and Scottish Environment LINK.
Answer
The draft Regulations will transpose the Environmental Liability Directive (2004/35/CE). This defines damage to protected species and habitats in terms of conservation status.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 25 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-16565 by Richard Lochhead on 9 October 2008, whether it has published the summary of responses to its Consultation on the Use, Sale, Distribution and Possession of Electronic Training Aids on its website.
Answer
A summary of these responses will be published on the Scottish Government website by the end of March. Complete responses, where the respondents have agreed to their responses being made public, have been placed in the Scottish Government library.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 25 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to provide direct funding for the Gretna Landmark project and, if so, how much.
Answer
The Scottish Government has no plans at present to provide direct funding to the Gretna Landmark project.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to include sites of special scientific interest and Ramsar sites in the latest draft of regulations to transpose the EU environmental liability directive into Scots law in light of concern shown in responses to the Scottish Government’s second consultation on the matter.
Answer
The majority of respondents were not in favour of including sites of special scientific interest and Ramsar sites and, as these sites are not within the scope of the Directive, they have not been included in the draft Regulations.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to eliminate the illegal landfilling of construction waste as part of its strategy to improve the efficiency and sustainability of the construction industry, with particular reference to plastic foam insulation from steel-clad buildings.
Answer
The prevention of any form of illegal landfilling is an operational matter for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA).
With regard to the position on plastic foam insulation from steel-clad buildings, I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-21461 on 10 March 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessments have been made of the capacity of available facilities to capture and dispose safely of products containing ozone depleting substances (ODS), with particular reference to those contained in plastic foam insulation from steel-clad buildings.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-21461 on 10 March 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) enforcement notices and (b) prosecutions have been made for the improper disposal of plastic foam insulation containing ozone depleting substances (ODS) from steel-clad buildings.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-21764 on 23 March 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
