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Sectors producing less than they were one year ago include financial services, metal products, food, drink and tobacco, agriculture, forestry, fishing, and mining and quarrying. All of them are major sectors and all of them have deep problems.
Sea Fishing (Restriction on Days at Sea) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2003(SSI 2003/66) Although we have no technical points to raise, we wonder whether the amended order will be issued free of charge to people who purchased the order in its earlier form.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 February 2003
The relevant legislation, the Import of Live Fish (Scotland) Act 1978, makes provision for allegations of keeping without a licence to be investigated by an officer of the Customs and Excise, a police constable or a person authorised by Scottish ministers.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has sought advice from Her Majesty's Government about whether the reallocation of fishing opportunities equivalent to deducted fishing opportunities, referred to in Article 23(4) of EU Council Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002, could result in the member state receiving the reallocation gaining fishing opportunities for stocks in International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) areas other than in ICES areas that had been deducted from the member state that had exceeded its fishing opportunities.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how the additional #3 million package of support for peripheral fishing communities will be allocated and whether there will be any restrictions on how it can be applied.
Fishing Industry (Compensation) To ask the Scottish Executive what assurances it can give that any compensation to the fishing industry will be extended to include small businesses such as fish vans, fish shops and small-scale processo...