Most of the evidence to the inquiry has been printed with the Interim Report. The following evidence was received before completion of the Interim Report but not in time to be printed with it; it is now printed with the present Report.

  CSERGE (Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment), University of East Anglia (supplementary memorandum)

  Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (supplementary memorandum)

  European Nature Conservation Topic Centre, Paris (oral evidence)

  Hampshire County Council

  Joint Nature Conservation Committee (supplementary memorandum)

  Elliot Morley Esq MP, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (oral evidence)

  World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-European Policy Office, Brussels)

New or further evidence was received from the following witnesses:

  Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions and the Scottish Executive (further oral evidence)

  Joint Nature Conservation Committee (supplementary memorandum and further oral evidence)

  Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (supplementary memorandum)

  World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-UK) (supplementary memorandum)