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1 PLACE Kilncraigs, Greenside Street, Alloa, FK10 1EB Telephone: 01259 450000 Contact: Kevin Wells Direct Tel: Edward Mountain MSP Email: The Scottish Parliament Our Ref: EDINBURGH EH99 1SP Your Ref: EM-01 Date: 17 December 2024 Dear Mr Mountain, MP/MSP Enquiry : EM-01 Subject : Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 Thank you for your letter dated 4th December 2024 regarding the above subject.
Registers of Scotland (RoS) have formed a good working relationship with the Committee to date, and I look forward to continuing to work with you to provide the assurance the committee seeks regarding our performance, as well as specific areas of committee interest.
With regards to aquaculture more generally, the Committee’s work to date has predominantly focused on Professor Grigg’s independent review of the current regulatory framework for Scottish aquaculture.
In addition, the Committee is grateful for your letter, dated 15 June 2022, clarifying the discrepancy between the five specified frequency rates set out on page 8 and the wider range set out in Annex 2 of the notification.
Just to clarify, it would not be after the summer recess. It would be up to the point of the summer recess, so we are really talking about a six-week period.
That is fair enough.On Stuart McMillan’s point about the stage 1 report, although it would be better to finish the report before the summer recess, we have to bear it in mind that we will have stage 3 of the franchise bill in the final week before the recess, as the convener said.
In calculating the period of 40 days mentioned in subsection (5), no account is to be taken of any time during which the Parliament is dissolved, or in recess for more than 4 days (section 44ZZA(6)). 85.
The next question is, that motion S4M-03931, in the name of Bruce Crawford, on parliamentary recessdates, be agreed to.Motion agreed to,That the Parliament agrees the following parliamentary recessdates under Rule 2.3.1: 9 to 17 Febru...