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For the most part, those are new powers for agencies to consider in the light of local strategies, local circumstances and the available alternatives, rather than new duties imposed on the agencies.
The situation on cod remainsserious. However, the latest scientific advice does suggest that for North Sea codfishing mortality has declined and the stock can recover.
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Date answered:
22 September 2003
The figures below are taken from thatsection of the publication and represent those cases marked “planning permission”.They cover the latest five-year period forwhich figures have been published.
It is unusual for me to be so lenient with members, but Tommy Sheridan has made an important point.Members will recall that the committee unanimously decided at its meeting on 26 June to take item 4 in private. The decision was taken without dissent in public session.
Next, we will go through the other new petitions, the first of which is PE760, from Mhairi McKean on behalf of the Gypsy/Traveller Community Development Project and the Scottish Human Rights Centre.
Those could be a wide range of things, such as building new roads and offshore wind farms. We need much greater clarity around the definition of what is and is not ecocide.”