Departmental report : 2002 (Defra) / Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Forestry Commission ; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

  • Great Britain. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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2002
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    Waste Summit will assess what extra instruments, changes to targets or regulations and/or additional funding may be required to ensure Waste Strategy 2000 is effectively delivered in line with Government aims to develop more sustainable waste management. The PIU will be consulting with key stakeholders throughout the study and will report in summer 2002. We have begun a major review of our agri-environment schemes which will be the main vehicle for following-up some of the recommendations arising from the Policy Commission. The review will be completed by the end of next year and will involve wide consultation. Continuing to develop the National Scrapie Plan by extending it to other sectors of the sheep industry and to examine the feasibility of schemes targeted at specific areas. Working closely with the Food Standards Agency to help meet the targets set on the reduction of the incidence of foodborne Zoonoses. Pushing forward the UK position on the review of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy, in negotiations with the EC and other member states, in order to secure environmentally and economically sustainable fishing throughout the EU, seeking in the longer term: — further reductions in fishing capacity and activity to match lower stock levels; — an end to counter-productive subsidies applied by some member states; — more equitable and effective enforcement in all member states; — better involvement of the full range of stakeholders — including fishermen, scientists, environmentalists and anglers — in the development of fisheries policy with a strengthened regional dimension; and — promoting sustainable fishing outside the EU through better balanced EU agreements with 3rd countries and more effective regional fisheries agreements. Establishing a biodiversity strategy for England in late summer 2002 setting out a programme for integrating biodiversity into the delivery of other land and resource use policies. We will continue to work with OFWAT and the water regulators to bring about sustainable improvements in the quality of drinking water, rivers and bathing water, consistent with achieving value for money for water customers. Carrying out further work on the implementation of the Water Framework Directive implementation and the development of planned EU Directives on groundwater and individual priority substances, and revision of the Bathing Water Directive. Taking forward work on the Flood and Coastal Defence Funding Review in the light of the consultation exercise to make the current funding mechanisms and institutional arrangements more effective, fair and efficient. Working with the insurance industry and HM Treasury to help ensure the continued COVEr. Chapter 4
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