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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">MEDIN needs your input!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Please fill in this short
<a href="https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MEDIN_User_Survey/" target="_blank">survey</a> which will only take around 10 minutes to complete. The survey is to help MEDIN find out just how valuable a service it provides to the UK marine community . It will take
around 10 minutes to complete.<br>
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As a user of MEDIN, we value your opinion and need your feedback, on the services it provides. The survey is designed to gather information on how you use this service and how, if at all, you benefit from it. Your help is gratefully received and will be used
to improve the future services provided by MEDIN. All responses will be kept confidential and we do not ask for your name or the name of your organisation. Please note that there is no intention to use this information to make MEDIN a paid service, it is solely
to better understand the benefits that it provides. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">MEDIN has commissioned Economics for the Environment Consultancy (eftec) to undertake the cost benefit analysis work.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The survey will be online until
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">13<sup>th</sup> September</span></strong>. Eftec will then analyse the results and provide MEDIN with a final report on the costs benefit analysis at the end of October.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Many thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sean Gaffney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="color:#00B0F0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Sean Gaffney</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Manager, MEDIN Standards and Guidelines Work Stream<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool L3 5DA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.medin.org.uk">www.medin.org.uk</a>; e: <a href="mailto:sgaf@bodc.ac.uk">
<span style="color:blue">sgaf@bodc.ac.uk</span></a>; t: +44 (0) 151 795 4950 <o:p>
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