The Royal Society of Edinburgh said that the success or otherwise of the Bill in this area would depend heavily on how the Scottish Government articulated this term.Written submission of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Some suggested making a link in the Bill to the Code of Practice arising from the new Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act.iiNet Zero, Energy and Transport Committee, Official Report, 25 June 2024, cols 42-43; Written submissions of RSPB Scotland and CAAV/SAAVA Jeremy Moody (CAAV/SAAVA) stated:
As I recall from the debates on the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill, the extraordinary difficulty of defining “sustainable and regenerative agriculture” is the reason why that bill does not provide a definition of that but leaves it to be discussed in general terms in a code of practice.