Offshore wind energy - draft updated Sectoral Marine Plan 2025: consultation

Annex F. List of Abbreviations

AA - Appropriate Assessment

AAIR - Appropriate Assessment Information Report

AEOI - Adverse Effect on Integrity

AoS - Areas of Search

ARROW - Acceleration and Regulatory Reform of Offshore Wind

BRIA - Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment

CES - Crown Estate Scotland

CCUS - Carbon Capture, utilisation, and storage

CP2030 - Clean Power 2030 Action Plan

CRWIA - Child Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment

CSNP - Centralised Strategic Network Plan

DESNZ - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

DND - Detailed Network Design

EA - Exclusivity Agreement

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment

EMEC - European Marine Energy Centre

EMF - Electromagnetic field

EQIA - Equalities Impact Assessment

ER -Environmental Report

FSDA - Fairer Scotland Duty Assessment

FTE - Full Time Equivalent

GES - Good Environmental Status

GHG - Greenhouse Gas

GVA - Gross Value Added

GW - Gigawatt

HES- Historic Environment Scotland

HND - Holistic Network Design

HND-FUE - Holistic Network Design Follow Up Exercise

HRA - Habitats Regulations Appraisal

HVDC - High Voltage Direct Current

ICIA - Island Communities Impact Assessment

IMMA - Important Marine Mammal Area

IN - Innovation

INTOG - Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas

IPF - Initial Plan Framework

IPR - Iterative Plan Review

IROPI - Imperative Reasons of Overriding Public Interest

LSE - Likely Significant Effect

MARPOL - The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships

MCZ – Marine Conservation Zone

MD-LOT - Marine Directorate Licensing Operations Team

MoD - Ministry of Defence

MPA - Marine Protected Area

MPP - Marine Planning Partnership

MPS - Marine Policy Statement

MW - Megawatt

NCMPA - Nature Conservation Marine Protected Area

NESO - National Energy System Operator

NGO- Non-governmental organisation

NMP -National Marine Plan

NMP2 - National Marine Plan 2

NPF4 - National Planning Framework 4

OA - Option Area

Ofgem - Office of Gas and Electricity Markets

ORE - Offshore Renewable Energy

OSPAR - The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic

OTNR - Offshore Transmission Network Review

OWD - Offshore Wind Directorate

OWEC - Offshore Wind Evidence and Change Programme

OWEER - Offshore Wind Environmental Evidence Register

PO - Plan Option

RBMPs - River Basin Management Plans

RESPs - Regional Energy Strategic Plans

RLG - Regional Locational Guidance

RMP - Regional Marine Plan

SA - Sustainability Appraisal

SACs -Special Areas of Conservation

SCANS - Small Cetaceans in European Atlantic waters and the North Sea

SCOS - Special Committee on Seals

ScotMER - Scottish Marine Energy Research programme

SEA - Strategic Environmental Assessment

SEIA - Social and Economic Impact Assessment

SEPA - Scottish Environmental Protection Agency

SMP - Sectoral Marine Plan

SMP-OWE - Sectoral Marine Plan for Offshore Wind Energy

SNCB - Statutory Nature Conservation Body

SPAs - Special Protection Areas

SSEP - Strategic Spatial Energy Plan

T&D - Test and Demonstration

tCSNP2 - transitional Centralised Strategic Network Plan 2, also known as HND-FUE

TMO4+ - ‘First Ready, First Needed, First Connected’ proposal

TOG - Targeted Oil and Gas

UNCRC - UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

UNFCCC - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

UXO - Unexploded Ordinance

WFD - Water Framework Directive