On 10 March 2010, Scotland's Marine Bill received Royal Assent, making it the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010.
The Marine (Scotland) Act is an Act of the Scottish Parliament which provides a framework which will help balance competing demands on Scotland's seas. It introduces a duty to protect and enhance the marine environment and includes measures to help boost economic investment and growth in areas such as marine renewables.
The main measures include:
- Marine planning: a new statutory marine planning system to sustainably manage the increasing, and often conflicting, demands on our seas
- Marine licensing: a simpler licensing system, minimising the number of licences required for development in the marine environment to cut bureaucracy and encourage economic investment
- Marine conservation: improved marine nature and historic conservation with new powers to protect and manage areas of importance for marine wildlife, habitats and historic monuments
- conservation: much improved protection for seals and a new comprehensive licence system to ensure appropriate management when necessary
- Enforcement: a range of enhanced powers of marine conservation and licensing
Stakeholders
Wildlife organisations, such as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, welcomed the new laws.
See also
- Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundaries Order 1999
- Marine Scotland, the Scottish Government's marine management directorate
- List of acts of the Scottish Parliament from 1999
- Marine Protected Area (MPA)
- Conservation biology
- Fisheries management, fish farms
- Marine conservation
- World Commission on Protected Areas
- Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009, covering England and Wales
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