In particular, we requested details of any progress that SEPA had made in implementing the various recommendations that arose out of the policy and management review that was conducted in 2003.SEPA's substantive response to the petition states:"The petition refers to the public's need for an open, effective, honest, just, impartial, autonomous and accountable regulator. Clearly these aspirations are entirely laudable, and I can only say that SEPA is not aware of anything in the way it has acted which detracts from such sentiments."