Source: www.sepa.org.uk
The consultation sets out some significant changes that SEPA is proposing in order to improve, simplify and better integrate the environmental protection and improvement services it provides for Scotland.
We want Scotland to have a world class system for environmental regulation – with SEPA doing better with less and delivering services that are efficient, effective and that provide the best value for tax payers and our charge payers.
Our change proposals are focused on achieving simpler, more integrated, more proportionate, and more effective regulation. We want a system that reduces bureaucracy and duplication and that protects and improves the environment and communities. We also need the right tools to allow us to deal with poor environmental practice and to tackle the environmental crimes that do serious economic and social as well as environmental damage to Scotland. Our proposals are about actively regulating the higher environmental risks and focusing our effort more on poor performers, enabling us to reduce effort on consistently high performers and the lower risk activities. We call this Better Environmental Regulation. SEPA’s Chairman, David Sigsworth, sets out his support and that of the Agency Board for the changes proposed in the consultation in an audio message which you can listen to by clicking on the link below.
We need your views on what we are proposing, including on the potential for legislative reform that could deliver the streamlined, simpler, more integrated regulatory system we believe Scotland needs to support economic recovery.
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The consultation remains open until 14 February 2011. Please download the feedback form and return it to us in one of the following ways:
· Print off the feedback form and send it to: Better Environmental Regulation Consultation, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Erskine Court, Castle Business Park, Stirling FK9 4TR.
· Email the form to betterenvreg@sepa.org.uk.