Scottish Environment Protection Agency

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency is Scotland’s environmental regulator. Their main role is to protect and improve the environment. They do this by helping business and industry to understand their environmental responsibilities, enabling customers to comply with legislation and good practice and to realise the many economic benefits of good environmental practice.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency protects communities by regulating activities that can cause harmful pollution and by monitoring the quality of Scotland's air, land and water. The regulations they implement also cover the keeping and use, and the accumulation and disposal, of radioactive substances. They are also responsible for delivering Scotland's flood warning system, helping to implement Scotland's National Waste Strategy and controlling, with the Health and Safety Executive, the risk of major accidents at industrial sites.

Peter Singleton, from the Science and Strategy Directorate says 'At the Scottish Environment Protection Agency it can be difficult to be confident that we are aware of all the relevant technical and methodological research that’s available, and to ensure that the research can be translated into useful and usable problem-solving in the “real world”.

Success in Living with Environmental Change for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency will mean more integrated and multi-disciplinary research that leads to operational solutions to environmental issues.'