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Annex E - Responding to the Consultation

Responding to this consultation paper

We are inviting written responses to this consultation paper by 3 October 2008.

Please send your response to:
zerowaste@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

or

We would be grateful if you would use the consultation questionnaire provided or could clearly indicate in your response which questions or parts of the consultation paper you are responding to as this will aid our analysis of the responses received.

This consultation, and all other Scottish Government consultation exercises, can be viewed online on the consultation web pages of the Scottish Government website at www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations. You can telephone Freephone 0800 77 1234 to find out where your nearest public internet access point is.

The Scottish Government now has an email alert system for consultations: www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations This system allows individuals and organisations to register and receive a weekly email containing details of all new consultations (including web links). SGconsult complements, but in no way replaces Scottish Government distribution lists, and is designed to allow stakeholders to keep up to date with all Scottish Government consultation activity, and therefore be alerted at the earliest opportunity to those of most interest. We would encourage you to register.

Handling your response

We need to know how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are happy for your response to be made public. Please complete and return the Respondent Information Form as this will ensure that we treat your response appropriately. If you ask for your response not to be published we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly.

The Scottish Government is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and would therefore have to consider any request made to it under the Act for information relating to responses made to this consultation exercise.

Next steps in the process

Where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public (see the attached Respondent Information Form), these will be made available to the public in the Scottish Government Library and if applicable on the Scottish Government consultation web page. We will check all responses where agreement to publish has been given for any potentially defamatory material before logging them in the library or placing them on the website. You can make arrangements to view responses by contacting the SG Library on 0131 244 4552. Responses can be copied and sent to you, but a charge may be made for this service.

We will conduct an analysis of the responses received to this consultation.

We will make all respondents' details available to the public in accordance with their expressed wishes (see Respondent Information Form, Annex F).

Thereafter, the Scottish Government will consider what provisions on waste should be included in the Scottish Climate Change Bill.

Comments and complaints

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

Name: Martin Macdonald

Address: Waste Strategy Team, Scottish Government, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh EH6 6QQ

E-mail: martin.macdonald@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

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