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6. DELIVERY
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6.1 Responses to the 2004 consultation focussed on the
need for
better policy leadership and
good governance. Good governance,
involving participation from stakeholders, is also one of
the central principles of sustainable development. The 2004
consultation was deliberately not prescriptive - it sought
views on what a strategy might contain rather than on any
specific Scottish Executive proposals for a strategy.
6.2 We intend to continue to engage with stakeholders in
the further development of a marine and coastal strategy,
building on the outputs and outcomes at tables 1 and 2
which take forward some proposals made in response to the
consultation and from the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy
and the Scottish Coastal Forum.
6.3 To do this, and to oversee the coordination across
sectoral strategies, the Minister for Environment and Rural
Development will personally chair a high level group
to:
- Review objectives, outputs and outcomes
- Consider the potential for marine spatial planning
and how such a system might operate in practice
- Identify indicators of progress towards objectives,
including identifying new research and science
needs
- Input to the early stage assessment, by
SNH, of potential candidate sites
for the first coastal and marine national park
- Identify the scale of any conflicts between
sector-based objectives
- Develop a suite of measures for conflict
resolution, at various scales
- Identify whether any of the elements of the
strategy might require underpinning by new legislation
or new delivery mechanisms
6.4 Stakeholder representatives, including the chairs of
existing groups/committees with a coastal and marine remit,
will be invited to join the new group. We would expect the
group to conclude its work in about a year.
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