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Marine Scotland’s online application record for reference SCOP-0070 shows that an “Environmental Impact Assessment Scoping Opinion – CampionWind Offshore Wind Farm – approximately 93 km southeast of Aberdeenshire coastline – July 2025 – SCOP-0070” was issued at the pre-application stage and submitted on 30 July 2025. The record identifies the application type as “Renewables - Wind” and links the scoping opinion specifically to the CampionWind Offshore Wind Farm project, promoted by Campion Wind Ltd. This document forms part of the formal pre-application package being managed under Marine Scotland’s marine licensing and consent processes. Within the same record, Marine Scotland lists other pre-application documents for CampionWind, including an “Environmental Impact Assessment Scoping Report” submitted on 24 April 2025 and an HRA Screening Report submitted on 3 June 2025, indicating a structured progression through environmental screening and scoping. The July 2025 EIA Scoping Opinion represents the authority’s formal response to the developer’s April scoping report, setting out the scope and key issues that any subsequent Environmental Impact Assessment would be expected to address for the offshore array area approximately 93 km southeast of the Aberdeenshire coastline. Although CampionWind has since been cancelled, the issuance of this scoping opinion in July 2025 marked a substantive regulatory milestone in the project’s early development phase, clarifying environmental information requirements and helping to frame potential future consent applications at the time it was issued.