Salmon Scotland meeting on the 6th May 2025: EIR release
Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.
Information requested
Any pre-meeting briefing provided to the Cabinet Secretary Mairi Gougeon prior to her meeting with Salmon Scotland on the 6th May 2025, a list of all attendees and the agenda for this meeting and any note/minute and actions points that were recorded from the meeting.
Response
As the information you have requested is ‘environmental information’ for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.
This exemption is subject to the ‘public interest test’. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.
I have included copies of the information you have requested in Annex B.
It may be helpful if I explain that the meeting with Salmon Scotland on 6 May 2025 took place during the Seafood Expo held in Barcelona from 5 to 7 May. The Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands was provided with one pack containing briefing for all meetings held over the duration of the Conference, I have therefore provided you with an extract from the full pack that falls within the scope of your request for information relating to the meeting held with Salmon Scotland on 6 May 2025.
On reviewing materials within the scope of your request, exceptions have been applied in line with the EIRs. These exceptions applied can be found in Annex A.
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