Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Official Report 475KB pdf

European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018: Instrument Procedure and Category

Animals, Food and Feed (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (SSI 2020/455)

Good morning. I welcome everyone to the second meeting in 2021 of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee.

As we are meeting online, I appreciate that it will be more challenging for members to indicate agreement to the items that are discussed. Therefore, I ask members to raise their hand if they are not content with the question that is being put or if they wish to speak about the instrument in question.

Agenda item 1 is consideration of an instrument that has been laid under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. The committee is considering whether the Scottish Government has applied the appropriate scrutiny procedure and the appropriate category to SSI 2020/455. The instrument has been laid under the negative procedure and has been categorised by the Scottish Government as being of low significance.

Is the committee content that the appropriate scrutiny procedure has been applied to the instrument and that it has been properly categorised as being of low significance?

No member has indicated that they are not content or that they wish to speak, so that is agreed.