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Decisions taken by SEPA: agendas, reports and
papers provided for consideration and minutes of Board (or
equivalent) meetings.
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Legally, the Agency Board constitutes SEPA.
The members of the Board are appointed by the Scottish Ministers
and, as well as appointing the Chairman of SEPA, the Scottish
Ministers appoint a member as Deputy Chairman. The Chairman is
personally responsible to Scottish Ministers. The Board has
responsibility for ensuring that SEPA fulfils the aims and
objectives set by the Scottish Ministers and membership of the
Board includes a Chief Executive to whom is delegated the
day-to-day management of SEPA. SEPA's Agency Board meets six
times per year. Meeting agendas and papers are uploaded to
the SEPA website on the day of meetings. Minutes of meetings
are uploaded once they have been approved.
Please note that items of business dealt with
at Board Strategy meetings are on occasion confidential and
therefore members of the public cannot attend these meetings.
Requests for copies of reports considered at the Board Strategy
meetings will be dealt with in full accordance with the
Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 and the
Freedom on Information (Scotland) 2002, and taking into
consideration issues of confidentiality, copyright and data
protection.
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Web site:
SEPA Board – Agendas and papers
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Public consultation and engagement
strategies.
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SEPA consults with external stakeholders on
proposed policies, strategies, charging schemes and
applications. Consultations are available via the SEPA
website, in addition to the required advertisement or publication
under specific statutory
requirements.
SEPA also responds to consultations from external bodies. The
responses are also available on the website.
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Web site:
Consultations
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Reports of regulatory inspections, audits and
investigations carried out by SEPA.
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The Compliance Assessment Scheme will apply
across all regulatory regimes but will be implemented in a phased
manner to allow adequate time for thorough preparation for each
regime and to learn from issues raised at each stage of
implementation. The scheme will apply to Pollution Prevention and
Control (PPC) from January 2009, resulting in the first assessments
of these licences being produced in spring 2010. The scheme will be
introduced for the remaining regimes in 2012 as indicated in the
table below. Licence holders will be notified in advance of the
scheme being implemented in their respective regimes. SEPA
undertakes inspections and audits of licensed sites as part of its
regulatory function. Such reports may be held on the public
register with the records for the site.
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Web site:
Compliance Assessment Scheme
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