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SPICe briefings
Date published:
12 January 2021
Update to the Climate Change Plan - Key Sectors - Draft CCPu- Electricity
Draft CCPu- Electricity
As previously noted, increasing Scotland's renewable electricity capacity is critical to enabling decarbonisation in other sectors i.e. transport, buildings and industry.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 September 2020
Stage 1 report on the UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Bill - Guidance on the environmental principles (s13)
NatureScot also raised the importance of guidance in supporting how the principles would be used by reference to the existing duty to have regard to biodiversity, as set out in the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004. NatureScot argued the biodiversity duty “has not delivered the recognition of biodiversity that we would have liked to have seen in how t...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
11 March 2020
Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Bill - Internet intermediaries
One of the big questions is, therefore, the extent to which these internet intermediaries are responsible for defamatory statements made by others on their websites.
In the case of Scotland, two pieces of legislation provide potential defences: section 1 of the Defamation Act 1996 and the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 February 2020
Consumer policy - the consequences of Brexit for devolved powers - Common frameworks
Revised framework analysis - breakdown of areas of EU law that intersect with devolved competence in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Retrieved from <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/792738/20190404-FrameworksAnalysis.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov....
SPICe briefings
Date published:
13 January 2020
Access to EU funding as a third country - CEF Telecom
The project "updated the existing solution used in Scotland to support the European eInvoicing Standard" which meant that Scottish public bodies could consequently "receive and process EN compliant e-Invoices from their suppliers, including cross-border ones." 1European Commission. (2019). eInvoice Expansion.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
20 November 2019
Resolving parenting disputes: Scotland compared to other countries - Other countries
Other countries
In the three main legal systems looked at by SPICe, there was a greater degree of judicial specialisation in family cases than exists in Scotland. This is both in terms of the existence of specialised courts and specialisation by individual judges.1Sutherland, E.E. (2012).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
4 November 2019
Alternative Housing Tenures - Shared Equity
This provides a shared equity contribution to help buyers purchase a house, up to certain price thresholds, on the open market.
• The Help to Buy (Scotland) Affordable New Build Scheme and Small Developers Scheme provides a shared equity contribution for households to purchase a new build property from a participating developer.
Committee reports
Date published:
21 June 2019
Presumption Against Short Periods of Imprisonment (Scotland) Order 2019 - Local government funding formula
Details of this section 27 (of the Community Justice (Scotland) Act 2016) funding are set out to the eight community justice authorities before the start of each financial year with CJAs then responsible for divvying up the grant across local authorities in their area. grant allocation”.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 May 2019
Annual report 2018-19 - Pre-budget Scrutiny 2019-20
The Committee focussed its pre-Budget scrutiny on the operation of the Fiscal Framework and potential risks to Scotland's public finances. This included evidence sessions taking place between September and October 2018 with: the Scottish Fiscal Commission; Office for Budget Responsibility; Chief Secretary to the Treasury; HMRC; and the Cabinet Secretary fo...
Committee reports
Date published:
8 May 2019
Subordinate legislation considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee on 7 May 2019 - Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session 1994 and Summary Applications, Statutory Applications and Appeals etc Rules 1999 Amendment) (Proceeds of Crime) 2019 (SSI 2019/146)(Justice)
The instrument is laid but not subject to any parliamentary procedure in terms of section 30(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010. It comes into force on 1 June 2019.
