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FAQs and Glossary

List of available Seabed and Foreshore Questions

Best Practicable Environmental Option – BPEO

Business & Regulatory Impact Assessment - BRIA

Community Benefits - CB

Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015

Competent Authority - CA

Competent Harbour Authority - CHA

Contract For Difference

Controlled Activities Regulations - CAR

Convention Of Scottish Local Authorities - COSLA

Ecosystem Benefits

Ecosystem Services - ES

Environmental Enhancement

Environmental Impact Assessment - EIA

Expression Of Interest - EOI

Fairer Scotland Duty

Freedom of Information - FOI

General Data Protection Regulations - GDPR

Green Participatory Budget - Green PB

Grid Connection

Gross Value Added – GVA

Habitats Regulations Appraisal - HRA

Information Sensitivities

Innovation And Targeted Oil And Gas Decarbonisation – INTOG

Island Communities Impact Assessment - ICIA

Island Proofing

Just Transition

Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment

Less Than Market Value – LMV

Local Biodiversity Action Plan – LBAP

Marine Spatial Planning – MSP

Mean High Water Springs – MHWS

Mean Low Water Springs - MLWS

National Islands Plan

Natural Capital

Nature Based Solutions

Nature Positive

Nautical Miles – NM

Non-Technical Summary - NTS

Our Islands Our Future – OIOF

Participation Request

Participatory Budgets

Place-Based Approach

Plan-Led Approach

Port Marine Safety Code

Public Money For Public Goods – PMPG

Regional Marine Plan – RMP

Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation – SCIO

Smith Commission

Social Responsibility

Strategic Environmental Assessment – SEA

Stressors - (Environmental)

System of Environmental-Economic Accounting

System Of Environmental-Economic Accounting – SEEA

Technology Readiness Level - TRL

Well Being Economy

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