Marine Strategy Framework Directive consultation
Oct 30th, 2009 | By ssacn | Category: GovernmentThis is a joint consultation between Defra, the Scottish Government, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland. It invites your views on the draft regulations with which the Government and Devolved Administrations propose to transpose the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) (Directive 2008/56/EC).
The Directive must be transposed by July 2010, and these regulations put in place a legal framework that will enable steps to be taken to implement the Directive, and on which there will be further consultations between 2010 and 2016.
The MFSD requires Member States to develop a marine strategy, including determining Good Environmental Status (GES) for their marine waters, and designing and implementing programmes of measures aimed at achieving it by 2020, using an ecosystem approach to marine management. It takes account both of socioeconomic factors and the cost of taking action in relation to the scale of the risk to the marine environment.
Consultation documents
- Letter to consultees
- Consultation document, including a commentary on the regulations, and Annex A (PDF 496 KB)
- Annex B: The draft regulations (PDF 138 KB)
- Annex C: Impact assessment (PDF 138 KB)
- Annex D: The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (Directive 2008/56/EC)
- Annex E: List of consultees (PDF 221 KB)
As SSACN are on the list of consultees, our response needs to be received by 22 January 2010. If you feel there are any issues we need to address, please raise them by the 22nd of December in order we may do so.
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