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SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 February 2020
Consumer policy - the consequences of Brexit for devolved powers - Scotland's newly devolved consumer powers
The 2016 Act also enables the Secretary of State to make payments to the Scottish Government to support such activities in Scotland.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
16 January 2020
Medicines in Scotland - Branded Drug Price Regulation
To encourage innovation, manufacturers of new active substances have the freedom to set their list price and are exempt from payments to the scheme for the first 3 years after launch.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 December 2019
Stage 1 Report on the Consumer Scotland Bill - Consumption
The Explanatory Notes accompanying the Bill outline that "harm" is not defined in the Bill and has its "ordinary meaning".vScottish Government, Consumer Scotland Bill, Explanatory Notes However, the academics noted:
Consumer activity has a direct negative impact on the environment and indeed, consumer wellbeing, through for example over-consumption and harm...
Committee reports
Date published:
10 December 2019
Report on the proposed draft Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland Regulations 2020 - Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and other resource policy measures
A number of other submissions stressed the need for policy to drive incentives further up the waste hierarchy, actively encouraging manufacturers and producers to use less resources and more recyclables.
Committee reports
Date published:
10 December 2019
Report on the proposed draft Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland Regulations 2020 - Interaction with existing infrastructure and need for new infrastructure
The Committee would also welcome further information from the Scottish Government on the active discussions with the waste management sector about how existing infrastructure and collections logistics can best be deployed.
Committee reports
Date published:
5 December 2019
Female Genital Mutilation (Protection and Guidance) (Scotland) Bill - Stage 1 Report - Need for an FGMPO
They noted this could currently be done under a Child Protection Order but considered an FGM-specific order would add clarity and align Scotland with the rest of the UK.Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Scotland, written submission
Police Scotland consider FGMPOs would be “an obvious tool to prevent certain activity and place conditions on indiv...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
22 November 2019
Human Rights and the Environment - Aarhus Compliance in Scotland
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The Aarhus Convention is organised around three pillars:
Access to information on the environment held by public authorities (e.g. information on the state of the environment) and the active dissemination of information by public authorities.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
22 November 2019
Human Rights and the Environment - Annex 1: Framework Principles on Human Rights & the Environment
States should ensure that they comply with their obligations to indigenous peoples and members of traditional communities, including by:
Recognizing and protecting their rights to the lands, territories and resources that they have traditionally owned, occupied or used;
Consulting with them and obtaining their free, prior and informed consent before relocating them or taking or approving any other measures that may affect their lands, territories or resources;
Respecting and protecting their traditional knowledge and practices in relation to the conservation and sustainable use of their lands, territories and resources;
Ensuring that they fairly and equitably share the benefits from activities...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
22 November 2019
Human Rights and the Environment - The Aarhus Convention and Procedural Environmental Rights
At the national level, each individual shall have appropriate access to information concerning the environment that is held by public authorities, including information on hazardous materials and activities in their communities, and the opportunity to participate in decision-making processes.
Committee reports
Date published:
7 November 2019
Looking ahead to the Scottish Government’s Draft Budget 2020-21: Valuing the Third Sector - Human rights budgeting and equality budgeting
The Scottish Human Rights Commission in particular argued that the budget is rarely viewed through a human rights lens, and it was their belief that the Scottish Government should adopt a human rights-based approach to budgeting “in order to ensure that rights on paper become rights in practice”.Scottish Human Rights Commission, written evidence
HSCAS defined human rights-based budgeting as—
the questioning of assumptions about the budget setting processes – moving the overall goals away from simply being focused on GDP, for example, and towards the realisation of rights as well as active...
