National Consultation - our Position Papers
This page lists the consultations where NOC has provided a position paper. Contact Steve Hall for further information. Note that many recent consultations use a web-based reply system so pdf versions of the input are not always available.
Consultations (most recent at bottom of list):
| Description | Further information | NOCS input |
| UK Fisheries Policy | /nmco/fisheries2027.php |  |
| NERC New Strategy | /nmco/new_nerc_strategy.php | |
| UK Marine Bill (07 not 08) | /nmco/marinebill07.php | |
| EU Maritime Policy | /nmco/european_green_paper.php | |
| House of Commons Science and Technology Committee 'Investigating the Oceans' | Parliamentary science and technology committee and see Govt response HERE | |
| The European Research Area: New Perspectives | /nmco/European_Research_Area.php
also see Aberdeen Declaration |
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| NERC Polar Science Working Group | www.nerc.ac.uk/research/areas/polar | |
| DFID New Research Strategy | www.dfid.gov.uk/consultations/default.asp | |
| EU Green Paper on Climate Change | Europa website link | |
| Future of Lyme Bay fisheries | Defra consultation link | |
| Future of IPCC | Online questionnaire - saved as pdf right.. | |
| Systematics and taxonomy | House of Lords inquiry link | |
| IUS Committee Engineering Inquiry | Submitted via NERC | |
| Invasive Alien Species | Online submission to http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature | |
| Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee on Carbon Capture and Storage | Submitted online | |
| BBSRC Future research | http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/organisation/policies/ | |
| UK MARINE BILL | ONGOING - SEE MARINE BILL PAGE | |
| Defra 'Our Seas - A Shared Resource' | http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/ | With NERC |
| BERR Carbon Capture & Storage | http://www.berr.gov.uk/consultations/ | |
| Scottish Marine Bill | http://www.scotland.gov.uk/ | |
| Severn Tidal Power Feasibility Study | DECC consultation page HERE
closed 23rd April - NMCO coordinated NERC response shown on right. |
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| Consultation on EMODNET - building a European Marine Data Infrastructure | Closed 2nd June 2009. See European Commission website HERE
NOCS response as pdf on right |
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| Delivering Marine Conservation Zones and European Marine Sites | Defra consultation closed 13th July 2009. NOCS response on right. | |
| Preparing for a Changing Climate | Scottish Government website HEREClosed 20/7/2009 | Sub.
Online |
| Defra Draft Flood and Water Management Bill | See Defra consultations page HERE
Closed 24/7/09 - no response made as questions posed are outside NOCS area of expertise. |
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| Secondary legislation for Marine Bill - Part 4 Marine Licensing | Closed 22/09/09 | |
| DBIS Funding & Management of UK civil space activities | Closed 14/10/09 | |
| Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution | Environmental impacts of demographic change in UK - NOCS provided input to RCUK response | |
| UK Marine Science Strategy | Closed 1/12/09 | |
| Reform of Common Fisheries Policy | Closed 31/12/09 | |
| Marine Plan areas for English Inshore and Offshore Marine Regions | November 2009 | |
| Common Fisheries Reform | December 2009 | |
| Marine Strategy Framework Directive - NERC response | January 2010 | |
| Subsea UK - Role of Academic Sector in working with Industry | June 2010 | |
| Equality Act and Government Ships | August 2010 | |
| UK Deepwater Drilling | August 2010 | |
| BIS/Defra Explanatory Memorandum on 'Marine Knowledge 2020' | September 2010 | |
| State of Scotland's Seas Atlas | Review of Chapter 2 Ocean Processes | |
| Defra consultations:
UK Marine Policy Statement Marine Planning System Marine Licensing System |
October 2010 | |
| Welsh Assembly Govt 'A Living Wales' | November 2010 | |
| Scotland Marine Licensing Consultation | November 2010 | |
| EA consultation on National Flood and Coastal Erosion risk | February 2011 | |
| UK Space Agency Strategy | June 2011 | |
