The Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon Extensions Offshore Wind Farm Order 2024

26.  The Guillemot CIMP must be based on the strategy for guillemot compensation set out in the Guillemot Compensation Plan and include—

(a) details of relevant technology supply agreements and arrangements with fishers to use the bycatch reduction technology that will be or have been secured by the undertaker;

(b) an implementation timetable for provision of the bycatch reduction measure(s), such timetable to ensure that contract(s) are entered into with fishers for the provision and use of bycatch reduction technology no later than one year prior to the operation of any turbine forming part of the authorised development;

(c) details for the proposed ongoing monitoring of the measure including collection of data from participating fishers;

(d) minutes from all consultations with the GCSG;

(e) details of the proposed ongoing monitoring and reporting on the effectiveness of the measures, including: survey methods; success criteria; adaptive management measures; timescales for the monitoring and monitoring reports to be delivered; and details of the factors used to trigger alternative compensation measures and/or adaptive management measures;

(f) provision for reporting to the Secretary of State, to identify barriers to success and target any adaptive management measures;

(g) provision for the option to be exercised by undertaker, following consent in writing of the Secretary of State, to pay a contribution to the Strategic Compensation Fund wholly or partly in substitution for the bycatch reduction measures or as an adaptive management measure for the purposes of paragraphs ‎266‎(e) and ‎(f) of this Part of this Schedule The sum of the contribution to be agreed between the undertaker and Defra or other Government body responsible for the operation of the Strategic Compensation Fund in consultation with GCSG;

(h) provision for the option to be exercised, following consent in writing of the Secretary of State, to pay a financial contribution towards the establishment of compensation measures by another party wholly or partly in substitution for the bycatch reduction measures or as an adaptive management measure for the purposes of paragraphs 26‎(e) and ‎(f) of this Part of this Schedule. The sum of the contribution to be agreed between the undertaker and the other party in consultation with the GCSG. The Secretary of State shall consult with the relevant statutory nature conservation body prior to granting consent in terms of this paragraph; and

(i) provision for the option to be exercised, following consent in writing of the Secretary of State, to collaborate with another party in the delivery of bycatch reduction measures wholly or partly in substitution for the compensation measure or as an adaptive management measure for the purposes of paragraphs 26‎(e) and ‎(f) of this Part of this Schedule. The Secretary of State shall consult with the relevant statutory nature conservation body prior to granting consent in terms of this paragraph.