This consultation builds on the direction and findings of SEPA’s Better Environmental Regulation consultation carried out last year and asks for your views on:
• Changes to the structure of environmental protection legislation in order to create a new, integrated framework for the permissions (licences, permits, rules etc) which SEPA uses to control activities which could harm the environment.
• Changes to the enforcement tools (sanctions such as fines or enforcement undertakings) which SEPA uses to deter non-compliance. Our aim is to bring forward a more joined-up and flexible range of sanctions to reflect the more joined-up framework for permissioning and to provide a balance to the more proportionate, risk-based approach which SEPA will take.