Chamber and committees

I want to ask about the implications of breaching international law. Worsening relations with the EU and potentially a trade war have already been mentioned, but what other implications could there be? Perhaps I could ask Sir Jonathan Jones to respond first of all.

Thank you very much.

Dr Fox, do you have any final comments before I hand back to the convener?

Jo Green, what is your view?

Do you have any indication of when there might be more certainty?

What do you expect to be on the agenda with your counterpart organisations across the UK?

In its early work, ESS has had a very welcome focus on air quality and on whether we have the right monitoring and regulatory frameworks in place to tackle poor air quality. I note that one of the report’s recommendations is that we need better monitoring, with bodies that can carry out such monitoring and then take very quick enforcement action over air quality breaches.

I ask Mark Roberts to reflect on that and Jo Green to reflect on whether SEPA has an active role to play in that work. Is an active conversation taking place about how the remit of a body—or bodies—could be strengthened or changed as a result of that ESS recommendation?

Okay. Jo, do you have any thoughts on that?

There is a lot of uncertainty. What is the ESS view on this?

Yes.