The Scottish Government

Advisory Group on Marine and Coastal Strategy

On September 12 2005, a new, Ministerially-chaired advisory group was established to take forward the development of marine and coastal strategy, with a specific remit to:

• review the objectives, outputs and outcomes incorporated within the strategy;
• 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;
• make input to the early stage assessment, by Scottish Natural Heritage, of potential candidate sites for the first Scottish 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; and
• identify whether any elements of the strategy might require underpinning by new legislation and/or new delivery mechanisms.

The group reported in March 2007. The report, which includes details of the membership of the group, is available through the following link:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/03/08103826/0

Papers

AGMACS FIRST MEETING PAPERS

AGMACS SECOND MEETING PAPERS

AGMACS THIRD MEETING PAPERS

AGMACS FOURTH MEETING PAPERS

AGMACS FIFTH MEETING PAPERS

AGMACS SIXTH MEETING PAPERS

Minutes

AGMACS MINUTES OF FIRST MEETING

AGMACS MINUTES OF SECOND MEETING

AGMACS MINUTES OF THIRD MEETING

AGMACS MINUTES OF FOURTH MEETING

AGMACS MINUTES OF FIFTH MEETING

AGMACS MINUTES OF FIFTH MEETING AS AMENDED

AGMACS MINUTES OF SIXTH MEETING

Membership