APPENDIX 2

CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION

Please complete this certificate by providing the following details, sign and send it, along with pages of the newspapers that contained the advertisements, to SEPA by email to no later than 10 November 2020.

Publications containing advertisement

Name of newspaper Date of publication

Edinburgh Gazette 16 October 2020

Oban and Times 15 October 2020

Declaration

I hereby certify that notices advertising an application under the Water Environment ( Controlled Activities) ( ) Regulations 2011 to vary water use licence, reference number CAR/L/1002965, have been published in the newspapers and on the respective dates given above and that pages of the relevant newspapers containing the advertisements are attached.

Signature Date 26/10/2020

Print name

On behalf of Mowi Scotland Limited state corporate body, if applicable) Get Coronavirus guidance from GOV.UK See Coronavirus notices See Coronavirus legislation Additional advice for Coronavirus on thegazette. co.uk on legislation. gov.uk Scotland | Wales | Northern Ireland

Published by Authority | Est 1665

Notice details Environmental Protection

Type: MOWI Scotland Ltd Environment Environmental Protection WATER ENVIRONMENT AND WATER SERVICES ( SCOTLAND) ACT 2003 Publication date: 16 October 2020, 12:00 WATER ENVIRONMENT ( CONTROLLED ACTIVITIES)

Edition: SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2011 The Edinburgh Gazette APPLICATION FOR VARIATION OF AUTHORISATION Notice ID: MARINE PEN FISH FARM, MACLEAN’ S NOSE, 3654927 , , , BY ACHARACHLE, Notice code:

1803 An application has been made to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency SEPA) by MOWI Scotland Ltd. to vary water use licence number CAR/ L/1002965 authorising the carrying on of controlled activity at, near or in connection with a Marine Pen Fish Farm at Maclean’ s Nose, Loch Sunart, as follows:

Change to the discharge of trade effluent arising Loch Sunart, NGR: NM from the production of salmon at an existing pen Kilchoan, by 5253 fish farm. Acharachle, Argyll 6180

SEPA considers that the above change( s) to controlled activities may have a significant adverse impact on the water environment and on the interests of other users of the water environment.

The application may be viewed on SEPA’ s website at: http:// www. sepa. org. uk/regulations/ consultations/ advertised- applications- under- car/. If you are unable to access the website you can email SEPA at registry@sepa. org. uk to request a copy of the application Please note that due to the current Covid - 19 restrictions it is not possible to view the application at a SEPA office.

Any person affected or likely to be affected by, or having an interest in, the application may make representations to SEPA in writing within 28 days beginning with the date of this advertisement, either by email to registrydingwall@sepa. org. uk, quoting reference number CAR/ L/1002965:

Written representations received by SEPA within 28 days of this advertisement will be taken into consideration in determining the application. Any such representations will be placed in a public register unless the person making them requests that they should not be. Where such a request is made SEPA will include a statement in the register indicating that representations have been made which have been the subject of such a request.

Before determining the application, SEPA will:

assess the risk to the water environment posed by the carrying on of the activity or activities;

assess the indirect effects of that impact on any other aspects of the environment likely to be significantly affected;

consider any likely adverse social and economic effects of that impact and of any indirect environmental effects that have been identified;

consider the likely environmental, social and economic benefits of the activity;

assess the impact of the controlled activity or activities on the interests of other users of the water environment;

assess what steps may be taken to ensure efficient and sustainable water use’; and

apply and have regard to relevant legislation.

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