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SPICe briefings
Date published:
6 August 2020
UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Bill - Part 2 -Environmental Principles and Governance - Stakeholder views and discussion
LINK is particularly concerned about the loss of the Integration Principle, which is also embedded within the EU treaties and requires that environmental protection is integrated into all other policy areas and activities, with a view to promoting sustainable development
Committee reports
Date published:
24 July 2020
Inquiry into mental health support for young people in Scotland - Clear pathways
The Committee considers it essential that young people have an active voice in the development of services and information, to ensure that both are accessible to children and young people.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
28 May 2020
The UK Environment Bill - Scottish and UK Government policy on post-EU exit environmental standards
Instead, the non-legally binding Political Declaration accompanying it says (emphasis added):
The Parties will retain their autonomy and the ability to regulate economic activity according to the levels of protection each deems appropriate in order to achieve legitimate public policy objectives such as public health, animal health and welfare, social servi...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 8.1.3 Cooperation in the exchange of fishing opportunities
The Parties recognise that this objective will require corresponding changes in Community fishing activity in Norwegian waters.
2. Each Party will take into account the character and volume of the other Party's fishing in its area of fisheries jurisdiction, bearing in mind habitual catches, fishing patterns and other relevant factors.
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Committee reports
Date published:
13 March 2020
Consumer Scotland Bill as amended at Stage 2
Delegated Powers
At its meeting on 10 March 2020 the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee agreed that it was content with the following power in the Consumer Scotland Bill which was the only new power added at Stage 2:
Section 6(3) – specified persons whose activities Consumer Scotland must have regard to
The Committee also reconsidered the power below...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
17 January 2020
Negotiating the future UK and EU relationship - Immigration
Maintaining existing Mode 4 commitments, which have been taken as part of EU trade deals, and agreeing new Mode 4 commitments, as part of a trade deal with the EU and with other countries, would facilitate certain categories of business activity. However, as these arrangements are subject to the outcomes of negotiations with the EU, it is not possible to as...
Committee reports
Date published:
10 November 2019
Empty Homes in Scotland - Measuring the scale of the problem
City of Edinburgh and Perth and Kinross Councils both questioned, however, whether they would be able to actively identify all those households which were failing to disclose their empty status in order to avoid paying the council tax levy.6Local Government and Communities Committee.
Committee reports
Date published:
4 October 2019
Report on Funding of European Union Structural Fund priorities in Scotland, post-Brexit - Replicating the current approach
It considered that the system of SIs and then an operations phase had led to a reduction in third sector involvement and called for “a system of allocating to the local level which ensures that activities across multiple priorities can be supported as part of a larger package.”6Fife Council. (2019, April 25).
Committee reports
Date published:
27 September 2019
The Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 [draft] and the Environmental Protection Act 1990 Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2019 [draft]
Specifically, the instrument has four objectives: to ensure there are offences and penalties in place for the contravention of the prohibitions on the keeping and sale of 13 species identified as of concern (and which cannot be addressed by the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 as they are not considered invasive in Scotland); to ensure there are offences and penalties in place for the contravention of other restrictions under the EU regulation; to make statutory defences for owners of companion animals and commercial stock; and make arrangements for licensing certain restricted activities...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
12 September 2019
Mainstreaming nature - international approaches to biodiversity conservation - Environmental courts - Chile, Kenya and Sweden
Its principal function is to decide appeals from decisions of the national environmental agency on licenses for major developments (such as roads, housing and marine activities). It has powers to confirm, overturn or vary the national environment agency’s decisions.
