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Responding to the consultation

The Scottish Government welcomes input by 31 October 2008. Comments can be submitted using the online response form. The online form includes a Respondent Information Form which should also be completed.

Alternatively, comments can be submitted by e-mail to: procurementremedies@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

or by post to:

Jessie Laurie

If responding by post or e-mail, please quote the text box number to which your comments relate as this will aid our analysis of the responses received. To ensure that we treat your response appropriately, please also complete and return the Respondent Information Form at Annex C.

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/Current. 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/seConsult). This system allows stakeholder individuals and organisations to register and receive a weekly email containing details of all new consultations (including web links). SEconsult 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

If you ask for your response not to be published we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly. All respondents should be aware that 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, these will be made available to the public in the Scottish Government Library by 28 November 2008 and on the Scottish Government consultation web pages by 5 December 2008. 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 Scottish Government Library on 0131 244 4552. Responses can be copied and sent to you, but a charge may be made for this service.

What happens next?

Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help us reach a decision on our approach to implementation of the new Directive. We aim to issue a report on this consultation process by 23 January 2009.

We intend to implement the Directive by amending the existing Scottish Regulations. A second consultation exercise in 2009 will include a draft Scottish Statutory Instrument and will seek comments on the amending legislation.

Comments or complaints

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

Jessie Laurie

or e-mail jessie.laurie@scotland.gsi.gov.uk .

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