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EU single use plastics directive consultation: fairer Scotland duty scoping assessment
This partial assessment aims to identify any impacts on those who experience socio-economic disadvantage on the introduction of new legislation to restrict the supply of seven single-use plastic items and all oxo-degradable products, in Scotland.
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EU single use plastics directive consultation: impact assessment - environmental report
Environmental report for a consultation on the introduction of new legislation to restrict the supply of seven single-use plastic items and all oxo-degradable products, in Scotland, with the intended effect of reducing the volume and impact of plastic pollution within terrestrial and marine environments.
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EU single use plastics directive consultation: islands communities screening assessment
This document seeks to identify whether there are issues which merit further exploration through an Islands Communities Impact Assessment associated with a market restriction on those single-use plastic products included in Article 5 of the EU Directive on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment (2019/904).
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EU single use plastics directive consultation: partial business and regulatory impact assessment
Partial Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA) for proposed market restrictions on problematic single-use plastic items and all oxo-degradable products as identified in Article 5 of the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive (EU) 2019/904.
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EU single use plastics directive consultation: partial equality impact assessment
This partial equality impact assessment (EQIA) considers potential equality impacts associated with a market restriction on those single-use plastic products included in Article 5 of the EU Directive on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment (2019/904).
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Single-use plastic items - market restrictions: consultation
This consultation proposes the introduction of market restrictions – effectively a ban – on the single-use plastic items included in Article 5 of the EU Directive on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment (2019/904).
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Island communities impact assessments: guidance - consultation
Our islands face particular challenges around distance, geography, connectivity and demography, so it is important that policy makers consider these properly. The consultation on the guidance will help ensure that islands receive fair treatment tailored to their unique circumstances.
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Inter-Ministerial Group for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: September 2020
Communiqué agreed at the meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Group for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (IMG EFRA), held on 14 September 2020.
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Permitted development rights - extension and review: strategic environmental assessment - draft post adoption statement
Strategic environmental assessment draft post adoption statement setting out how the assessment and consultation responses have been taken into account within the development of the Proposed programme for reviewing and extending permitted development rights (PDR) in Scotland at this stage of the process.
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Permitted development rights - extension and review: sustainability appraisal update
Update to the 2019 Sustainability Appraisal on the Programme for Extending Permitted Development Rights in Scotland is concerned with the proposals for phase 1 of the work programme. This document sets out the findings of the further, iterative appraisal of these emerging proposals.