Consultation on proposal for new Environmental Regulation (Scotland) Charging Scheme 2018

Overview

This consultation is closed. It presented the details of the planned changes outlined in the 2015 Charging Scheme consultation (2015 Consultation) to further develop the Environmental Regulation (Scotland) Charging Scheme 2016 (the Scheme) which came into force on 1 April 2016.   The revised Scheme should come into effect on 1 April 2018.

There are four main types of changes that were being proposing:

• Planned implementation of 2015 consultation proposals.   The Scheme outlined in the 2015 Consultation represented such a major transformation in the way we calculated charges that we planned a staged implementation of certain parts of the Scheme for 2018. We are now presenting detailed proposals for the implementation of these changes.  We are not consulting on the principle of making these changes as they have already been subject to consultation.  We are consulting on the details of how we should calculate the charges.
• Changes resulting from consultation responses.  Changes proposed in the 2015 consultation response to suggested improvements set out by respondees. We are consulting on the principle of making these changes and on the details of how we should calculate the charges.
• Changes proposed by SEPA. We have identified some improvements to the scheme as a result of the experience of operating the scheme since 2016.  We are also introducing changes that result from changes in statute or policy. We are consulting on the principle of making these changes and on the details of how we should calculate the charges.
• Routine updating.  We have updated the data upon which the scheme is constructed. We are not consulting on these updates as they are within the scope of the original Scheme.

This consultation ran from 14th August to 10th November 2017 and is now closed.

The following link summaries the consultation responses and SEPA's response to these. Please note we updated on 28/3/18  the document since we had not included all those organisations who had given agreement to be listed.