The Scottish Government Rural Affairs, Environment and Services Directorates were a group of civil service Directorates in the Scottish Government until a December 2010 re-organisation.
[1] A general concordat, drawn up in 1999, set out agreed frameworks for co-operation between the Environment Directorates and the United Kingdom government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs[2] and there is another specifically on the subject of genetically modified organisms.
[3] After December 2010 many of the department's responsibilities became those of the Enterprise, Environment and Digital Directorates.
This changed again to the Enterprise, Environment and Innovation Directorates after a June 2014 rebranding.
The political responsibilities of the Directorates were those of the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, Richard Lochhead MSP, whose responsibilities include: agriculture, fisheries and rural development including aquaculture and forestry, environment and natural heritage, land reform, water quality regulation and sustainable development.