2nd March 2007 http://www.scotlink.org/files/policy/ConsultationResponses/LINKConsultELD2007.pdf
LINK members believe that by recommending that the Directive is transposed “without enhancement”, the Executive and Scottish Ministers will substantially fail to apply the principal aim of the Directive, namely to “make the polluter pay”. It will also fail to meet the aim of Scotland’s Sustainable Development Strategy which states that the “polluter pays principle will be embedded into policies