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Marine Scotland’s project page for the Ossian Offshore Wind Farm records a “Scoping Opinion - Ossian Offshore Transmission Infrastructure - South-east of Aberdeenshire Coast” as a pre-application document dated 20 May 2025. This entry indicates that the competent marine authority has issued a formal scoping opinion for the offshore transmission infrastructure associated with the Ossian project. The document is listed under the Renewables - Wind category, confirming its direct relevance to the wind farm’s transmission elements rather than to unrelated marine activities. The same Marine Scotland page also lists a “Scoping Report - Ossian Offshore Transmission Infrastructure - South-east of Aberdeenshire Coast” as a pre-application document dated 21 February 2025, showing that the developer first submitted a scoping report and subsequently received the authority’s scoping opinion. Together, these entries demonstrate that Ossian’s offshore transmission infrastructure has progressed through the EIA scoping stage within the Scottish marine licensing and consent framework. The 20 May 2025 scoping opinion provides the authority’s response to the earlier report and marks a key regulatory milestone in defining the environmental assessment scope for the project’s offshore transmission components. This step helps frame the environmental information and technical assessments that will underpin later consent and marine licence applications for the Ossian Offshore Wind Farm’s transmission infrastructure in the waters south-east of the Aberdeenshire coast.