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REVIEW OF NON-NATIVE SPECIES POLICY

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Contents

Covering letter
PART ONE
1 Purpose of this document
2 Summary of issues on which we are looking for your input
3 Review of Non-Native Species Policy
4 The role of the Scottish Executive and other public bodies in Scotland on non native species.
PART TWO
5 The issues to be addressed
PART THREE
6 Review of Schedule 9 Species
Glossary

Covering Letter

Dear Consultee

CONSULTATION ON GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO THE WORKING GROUP REPORT OF THE REVIEW OF NON-NATIVE SPECIES POLICY, INCLUDING SPECIES FOR INCLUSION ON SCHEDULE 9 OF THE WILDLIFE & COUNTRYSIDE ACT 1981

The Scottish Executive is undertaking a further consultation on the Government Response to the Working Group Report of the Review of Non-native Species Policy*. A similar consultation is underway in England and Wales.

This approach follows the Scottish consultation in August 2003 on updating and improving existing legislation as they affected non-native species.

We are inviting written responses to this consultation paper by Wednesday 30 June 2004.

Please send your response to: PrincipalNNR@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
or
Scottish Executive Environment & Rural Affairs Department
Area 1-H South Victoria Quay
Leith, Edinburgh
EH6 6QQ

If you have any queries contact Deborah Gooch on 0131 244 4904.

We would be grateful if you could clearly indicate in your response which questions or parts of the consultation paper you are responding to (using the consultation questionnaire if appropriate) as this will aid our analysis of the responses received. Please also complete and return the attached Respondee Information Form.

If you wish to access this consultation online, go to http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations . You can telephone Freephone 0800 77 1234 to find out where your nearest public internet access point is, if you prefer to submit your response by e-mail to PrincipalNNR@scotland.gsi.gov.uk.

A new email alert system for SE consultations ( SEconsult) is available go to http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations . This system will allow stakeholder individuals and organisations to register and receive a weekly email containing details of all new SE consultations (including web links). SEconsult will complement, but in no way replace SE distribution lists, and is designed to allow stakeholders to keep up to date with all SE consultation activity, and therefore be alerted at the earliest opportunity to those of most interest. We will publicise the launch of the system and would encourage you to register when it becomes available.

We will make all responses available to the public in the Scottish Executive Library by 20 July 2004, unless confidentiality is requested. All responses not marked confidential will be checked for any potentially defamatory material before being logged in the library or placed on the website.

Regulatory Impact Assessment

A draft RIA has not been produced as the Scottish executive believes that the specific proposals will not have a significant economic impact.

Yours faithfully

Deborah Gooch
Protected Species & Wildlife Crime

^* The Review can be viewed at www.defra.giv.uk/wildlife-countryside/resprog/findings/non-native/index.htm.

Please complete the details below and attach it with your response. This will help ensure we handle your response appropriately:

C. The Scottish Executive Consultation Process

Consultation is an essential and important aspect of Scottish Executive working methods. Given the wide-ranging areas of work of the Scottish Executive, there are many varied types of consultation. However, in general Scottish Executive consultation exercises aim to provide opportunities for all those who wish to express their opinions on a proposed area of work to do so in ways which will inform and enhance that work.

While details of particular circumstances described in a response to a consultation exercise may usefully inform the policy process, consultation exercises cannot address individual concerns and comments, which should be directed to the relevant public body. Consultation exercises may involve seeking views in a number of different ways, such as public meetings, focus groups or questionnaire exercises.

Typically, Scottish Executive consultations involve a written paper inviting answers to specific questions or more general views about the material presented. Written papers are distributed to organisations and individuals with an interest in the area of consultation, and they are also placed on the Scottish Executive web site enabling a wider audience to access the paper and submit their responses ¹. Copies of all the responses received to consultation exercises (except those where the individual or organisation requested confidentiality) are placed in the Scottish Executive library at Saughton House, Edinburgh (K Spur, Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive, Edinburgh, EH11 3XD, telephone 0131 244 4552).

The views and suggestions detailed in consultation responses are analysed and used as part of the decision making process. Depending on the nature of the consultation exercise the responses received may:

indicate the need for policy development or review

inform the development of a particular policy

help decisions to be made between alternative policy proposals

be used to finalise legislation before it is implemented

If you have any comment about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to:

Name: Mrs Deborah Gooch
Address:
Scottish Executive Environment & Rural Affairs Department
Area 1-H South Victoria Quay
Leith, Edinburgh
EH6 6QQ
E-mail: PrincipalNNR@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

Name
Wildlife and Habitats Division
(Team)

¹www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations

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