To ask the Scottish Executive how the Scottish Environment Protection Agency can characterise, monitor and set environmental objectives for surface water, as defined in section 3(3) of the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill, adjacent to a wetland without characterising, monitoring and setting the environmental objectives with regard to the water needs of that wetland, as referred to by the Deputy Minister for Environment and Rural Development at the Transport and the Environment Committee during the Stage 2 consideration of the bill on 20 November 2002 (Official...