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Committee reports
Date published:
25 November 2021
Subordinate Legislation considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee on 23 November 2021
No points raised
Economy and Fair Work Committee
Diligence against Earnings (Variation) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/409)
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Coronavirus) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2021 (SSI 2021/411)
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Environment...
Committees
Published:
3 November 2021
Scottish Parliament scrutiny of the Draft National Planning Framework 4
I am writing to propose a collaborative approach which could be adopted by the committees of the Scottish Parliament to ensure maximum scrutiny of this important document which provides a framework for planning decisions and developments for the next decade. A collaborative approach to scrutiny could result in this important strategy document receiving comp...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
1 November 2021
GLOBE International Legislators Summit. Climate Change - Scotland's Contribution - Key Priorities
A number of stakeholder groups have made recommendations and a preliminary package of measures to reduce emissions from this sector is due to be developed by COP26. A new post-Brexit agricultural support framework is expected to be finalised in 2024 5Scottish Government. (2021).
Committees
Published:
29 October 2021
UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021
Although we have not yet needed to call upon the power provided in section 1 of the Act, this is critical in maintaining the Scottish Government’s ability to make subordinate legislation where appropriate, in order to ensure we can keep devolved Scots law aligned with EU law as it develops.
As you know, the Scottish Government profoundly regrets both ...
Committees
Published:
29 October 2021
Letter to the Committee on the Policy Statement and Annual Report for the Continuity Act
Although we have not yet needed to call upon the power provided in section 1 of the Act, this is critical in maintaining the Scottish Government’s ability to make subordinate legislation where appropriate, in order to ensure we can keep devolved Scots law aligned with EU law as it develops.
As you know, the Scottish Government profoundly regrets both...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 October 2021
Fisheries governance after Brexit - i. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Maximum Sustainable Yield
Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) refers to the largest average catch or yield that can continuously be taken from a stock under existing environmental conditions. In the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals, states agreed to:
effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructi...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 October 2021
Fisheries governance after Brexit - iii. Fisheries regulation in Marine Protected Areas
Fisheries regulation in Marine Protected Areas
A significant development in marine management in the past decade has been the establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) for nature conservation purposes.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
11 October 2021
Addressing the nature crisis: COP15 and the global post-2020 Biodiversity Framework - Learnings from failed targets - the need to scale-up and integrate nature recovery
These levers address underlying drivers of biodiversity loss (emphasis added):
Developing incentives and widespread capacity for environmental responsibility and eliminating perverse incentives (incentives that result in harming nature);
Reforming sectoral and segmented decision-making to promote integration across sectors and jurisdictions;
Taking pre-empt...
Committee reports
Date published:
29 September 2021
Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (LCM) on the UK Environment Bill - Guiding principles on the environment for UK Ministers to adhere to
As I emphasised in Parliament, the UK Government will continue to consult the Scottish Government when developing reserved policies that have an impact on Scotland.
Committees
Published:
10 September 2021
Session 5 Post-legislative scrutiny of Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016
To address these challenges, the Committee recommended that the legislation needed to be updated to reflect these developments as follows—
• Introduce a ‘factors’ approach based on functional tests – eg quantifying
the degree of public interest in the function/considering the cost to the
public purse.
