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However, based on a search of key public-facing documents and research on Scotland's MPA network1Carruthers, M., Chaniotis, P.D., Clark, L., Crawford-Avis, O., Gillham, K., Linwood, M., … Wilson, E. (2011).
For example a report co-authored by Professor Sebastian Oberthür (a leading environmental governance and climate policy scholar) from the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy claims 3Obergassel, W., Hermwille, L., & Oberthür, S. (2020, July).
It was estimated that in 2015 illegal waste activity cost over £600 million in England2Noel, L. (2018). Independent review into serious and organised crime in the waste sector.
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 of measures for the conservation, management and regulation of fisheries in a non-discriminatory manner, while preserving the regulatory autonomy of the Parties;
(f) eliminating discards by avoiding and reducing unwanted catches, and by ensuring that all catches are landed;
(g) promoting the protection of marine biological resources and their environments and coastal areas;
(h) applying the ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management and ensuring that negative impacts of fishing activities on the marine ecosystem are minimised;
(i) following a precautionary approach to fisheries management;
(j) ensuring cooperation on data collection and scientific advice to support stock assessments;
(k) ensuring cooperation on monitoring, control and surveillance activities, including the fight against illegal unreported and unregulated fisheries;
(l...
Despite professional psychological help they can often continue to suffer from anxiety around dogs.”1Morrison, L. (n.d.) Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act 2010 Call for Evidence.
The Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 at section 47(1) defines "care service" as covering:
(a) a support service,
(b) a care home service,
(c) a school care accommodation service,
(d) a nurse agency,
(e) a child care agency,
(f ) a secure accommodation service,
(g) an offender accommodation service,
(h) an adoption service,
(i) a fostering service,
(j) an adult placement service,
(k) child minding,
(l...
Khaitan, ‘A Constitution Protection Clause for the Great Repeal Bill?’, U.K. Const. L. Blog (19th Jul 2017) (available at: https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/)
Robin Walker MP explained to the Committee that he appreciated the special standing of the devolution Acts and highlighted that the Bill corrects as many deficiencies as possible in those Acts on the fa...