Rural Affairs and Islands Committee
Meeting Minutes
29th Meeting, 2022
- Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2022
- Session: 6
- Location: T4.40-CR2 The Fairfax Somerville Room
- Meeting opened at: 09:05
- Meeting closed at: 10:13
- Published: Thursday, November 10, 2022 11:09am
Committee Members Attendees
- Finlay Carson (Convener)
- Beatrice Wishart (Deputy Convener)
- Karen Adam (Member)
- Alasdair Allan (Member)
- Ariane Burgess (Member)
- Jim Fairlie (Member)
- Rachael Hamilton (Member)
- Jenni Minto (Member)
- Mercedes Villalba (Member)
1 Public petitions: PE1490 Control of wild goose numbers:
The Committee considered a petition by Patrick Krause on behalf of the Scottish Crofting Federation, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to address the control of wild goose numbers, taking evidence from—
Rae McKenzie, Policy and Operations Manager and Morag Milne, Wildlife Policy Officer, NatureScot.
2 Subordinate legislation:
The Committee considered the following negative instrument—
Rural Support (Simplification and Improvement) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2022
The Committee agreed to make no recommendations in relation to the instrument.
3 UK subordinate legislation:
The Committee considered a proposal by the Scottish Government to consent to the UK Government legislating using the powers under the European Union Withdrawal Act 2018 in relation to the following UK statutory instrument proposal—
Trade in Animals and Related Products (Amendment and Legislative Functions) Regulations 2022.
The Committee agreed that the provisions set out in the notification should be included in the UK SI.