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SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 6.1 Shared Values and Principles
The draft text of a partnership agreement proposed by the European Commission on 18 March 2020 includes an article on common objectives, which covers the following:
(a) upholding clear and stable rules and existing reciprocal conditions on access to waters and resources;
(b) ensuring that fishing activities are environmentally sustainable in the long term and contribute to achieving economic, social and employment benefits;
(c) applying and maintaining the maximum sustainable yield exploitation rate in order to restore and maintain populations of harvested species at levels which can produce the maximum sustainable yield;
(d) ensuring the rapid recovery of stocks below Blim to levels which can produce the maximum sustainable yield;
(e) cooperating on the development...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
11 March 2020
Issue 2: EU-UK future relationship negotiations - March 2020 - Comparison of UK and EU approaches by House of Lords EU Committee
There are also some omissions, which we highlight in Chapter 3, but taken as a whole the Decision is a development of, rather than a departure from, the PD.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 February 2020
Forensic Medical Services (Victims of Sexual Offences) (Scotland) Bill - Children and young people
NSPCC believed that there needs to be clearer and stronger legal obligations in place to drive the development of an integrated, multi-agency response to children.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 December 2019
Stage 1 Report on the Consumer Scotland Bill - Collaboration
A Scottish Consumer Protection Partnership could improve collaboration and develop strategies to tackle consumer harm.iiiGlasgow City Council, written evidence The CMA thought it was important for Consumer Scotland to join the UK-wide Consumer Protection Partnership.vCMA, written evidence
The Minister told the Committee that working in co-operation with oth...
Committee reports
Date published:
5 December 2019
Female Genital Mutilation (Protection and Guidance) (Scotland) Bill - Stage 1 Report - Racialisation
The Committee asks the Scottish Government to develop guidance and training that is mindful of the ongoing need to minimise the risk of racialisation and stigmatisation.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 November 2019
The Children (Scotland) Bill - Policy analysis
(Schemes for supporting children are in place in some parts of Scotland and the relevant professionals tend to have a social work or child development background.)
Section 13 would require that courts ‘only appoint’ curators where necessary, ‘give reasons for that appointment’ and ‘reassess the appointment every 6 months’.
Committee reports
Date published:
13 November 2019
Stage 1 Report on the Scottish Elections (Franchise and Representations) Bill - Introduction
Following commencement of the provisions in the 2016 Act relating to elections, the Scottish Government held consultations on electoral reform (December 2017 – March 2018) and prisoner voting (December 2019 – March 2019) with a view to developing legislation to improve the administration of devolved elections and to comply with Article 3 of Protocol 1 of th...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
5 September 2019
Female Genital Mutilation (Protection and Guidance) (Scotland) Bill - Key issues raised in the consultation
Scottish Government officials commented, "We are continuing to develop our [legal aid] policy".1Scottish Government. (2019).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
30 August 2019
The Disclosure (Scotland) Bill - Offences on Lists A and B
The Policy Memorandum states:
Ministers made a commitment to review the offence lists when the 2015 amendments were first introduced and the consultation set out proposals for the categorisation of new offences to reflect recent developments in legislation and the experience of operating the lists in practice in the context of the disclosure system.
Committee reports
Date published:
2 July 2019
Under Construction: Building the future of the sector in Scotland - Public sector procurement skills
She said:
An essential step forward would be the engagement of appropriately experienced chartered construction specialists in the procurement process.iiEEFW Committee, Official Report, 26 February 2019, col 4
The University of Glasgow noted that the skill set across procuring bodies is variable and fragmented; however some bodies are leading their sectors:
NHS Health Facilities Scotland has developed considerable knowledge and expertise in construction, which could also be applicable across the wider public sector.
