The Scottish Government

Stakeholder meetings provide a mechanism for direct communication between the Scottish Government and stakeholders, particularly in disseminating current issues to their membership and providing a sounding board to inform policy development and implementation.

A well established Animal Health and Welfare stakeholder group meets regularly to discuss a range of issues but where a more focussed approach is required sub-groups may be established to deal with specific issues. A Bluetongue Stakeholders group has been formed to deal with issues surrounding the Bluetongue virus. The minutes from these meetings can be accessed at the links below.

Stakeholder group minutes:

Meeting on 23rd June 2008
Presentation, Assessing the economic impact of different Bluetongue virus incursion scenarios in Scotland (PDF format) presented by SAC
Cattle movements based on kill data for 2007 Imports from England and Wales presented by QMS

Meeting on 9th April 2008

Meeting on 7th March 2008 also available in PDF

Meeting on 18th January 2008 also available in PDF

Meeting on 7th January 2008 also available in PDF

Meeting on 6th December 2007 also available in PDF

Meeting on 8th November 2007 also available in PDF

The minutes of meetings between the Scottish Government and stakeholders on specific issues:

Meeting on 5th June 2008, discussion of animal movement issues with IAAS.

Meeting on 22nd May 2008, vaccine delivery issues with veterinary practitioners and wholesalers.