Lakes to Dales Designation Project
Deadline: 17 March 2010
Draft Code of Practice for the Welfare of Gamebirds in Scotland
Deadline: 9 April 2010
Draft Code of Practice for the Welfare of Gamebirds in Wales
Deadline: 16 April 2010
Draft Animal Health Bill
Deadline: 19 April 2010
North Solent Shoreline Management Plan
Deadline: 23 April 2010 (start date 1 February 2010)
Essex and South Suffolk Shoreline Management Plan
Deadline: 18 June 2010 (start date 15 March 2010)
One of BASC’s key roles is representing your opinions, and the interests of the sporting shooting community, to government. With continual legislative proposals emerging from Westminster, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast, and further afield, the association is constantly responding to consultations and fresh initiatives. Some directly affect shooting, others, which often seem innocuous, can have severe implications for our sport if we are not constantly vigilant.
When a consultation is announced BASC takes the subject matter under consideration for a response. Depending on the consultation’s relevance and significance to BASC’s five strategic objectives we will utilise the experience of our staff, advisory committees and BASC Council to provide a position for the basis of a consultation response.
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BASC welcomes engagement on consultations from its members and other stakeholder organisations. It is especially important to get in touch with us if you are aware of a current consultation that is not covered in our list and you think this is relevant to BASC’s remit to protect and promote shooting.

Marford Mill, Rossett, Wrexham, LL12 0HL Tel: 01244 573031
Show full biography and contact detailsConor joined BASC in 2003, spending several years successfully negotiating wildfowling leases and consents in England, Wales and Northern Ireland before expanding his role as Policy Development Manager to oversee the submission of BASC responses to all government consultations nationally and internationally. He specifically represents shooting interests related to the Marine and Coastal Access Act and any proposals affecting the open general licences for pest birds.
Conor is secretary of Dee Wildfowlers and a committee member of Rossett & Gresford Flyfishers. He qualified as a Zoologist in Ireland in 1996 and began work on a game-keeping and habitat restoration project to save the Irish grey partridge from extinction, for which his research was awarded a PhD. He takes a keen interest in that project to this day, the last Irish population having recovered twenty fold, from a low of 22 birds.