The new integrated delivery service SEARS - Scotland’s Environmental and Rural Services - launched on 20 June 2008 will cut red tape and bureaucratic burdens for farmers and other rural land managers and result in: almost 2,000 fewer inspections to farms in the first year due to better co-ordination of visits between the nine public organisations involved; a reduction in the burden of information provision on land managers, as public bodies will share relevant data to avoid information having to be submitted more than once, and a 24 hour, seven days a week contact...