Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Act 2020

17 Purposes for which information may be required and processed

(1) This section applies to a requirement imposed under section 14(1) or (2) or 15(1) or (2).

(2) The requirement must specify the purposes for which the information is required and may be processed.

(3) Each purpose specified must be in or covered by the list of purposes in subsection (4).

(4) The list of purposes is—

(a) helping persons in agri-food supply chains or persons carrying on agricultural activities to—

(i) increase productivity,

(ii) manage risks (including, but not limited to, financial risks, non-financial trading risks, climatic risks, risks to animal or human health and risks of or from disease or pollution),

(iii) manage market volatility,

(b) promoting transparency or fairness in agri-food supply chains or agricultural activities,

(c) promoting the health, welfare or traceability of animals of a kind kept for the production of food, drink, fibres or leathers,

(d) promoting the health of plants,

(e) minimising adverse environmental effects of activities connected with agri-food supply chains or agricultural activities,

(f) minimising waste arising from activities connected with agri-food supply chains or agricultural activities,

(g) monitoring or analysing markets connected with agri-food supply chains or agricultural activities,

(h) monitoring or analysing—

(i) supply sources for food (including the availability to the public of food from those sources),

(ii) household expenditure on food,

(i) the purposes of any function of a public authority so far as it is a function relating to one or more of the following—

(i) agri-food supply chains,

(ii) activities connected with agri-food supply chains,

(iii) agricultural activities,

(iv) the health or welfare of people or animals,

(v) the health or quality of plants or soil,

(vi) the safety or quality of food or drink,

(vii) waste,

(viii) environmental protection,

(ix) the countryside.

(5) In subsection (4)—

• “plants” includes fungi,

• “public authority” means a public authority—

  (a)

  in any part of the United Kingdom,

  (b)

  in a country or territory outside the United Kingdom.