Overview and Background Part 2 – Environment Chapter 2 – Environmental governance
92.This Chapter establishes a new Scottish public body, Environmental Standards Scotland, and gives it a range of functions and powers. These powers and functions enable Environmental Standards Scotland to monitor and secure compliance by public authorities in Scotland, other than reserved bodies, with environmental law, and to improve the effectiveness of environmental law and of its implementation and application. It seeks to maintain a system of environmental governance following the UK’s exit from the EU, one which is equivalent to that previously provided by the institutions of the EU but adapted as appropriate to function in a domestic context.