Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Official Report 491KB pdf
Contents
- Attendance
- Interests
- Deputy Convener
- European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018: Instrument Procedure and Category
- Instruments subject to Made Affirmative Procedure
- Instrument subject to Affirmative Procedure
- Instruments subject to Negative Procedure
- Instruments not subject to Parliamentary Procedure
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018: Instrument Procedure and Category
Seed, Plant Propagating Material and Forest Reproductive Material (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc) Regulations 2020 (SSI 2020/445)
Agenda item 3 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 2020/445.
The instrument amends provisions that are contained in four Scottish statutory instruments concerning the marketing of agricultural seed, fruit and vegetative plant propagating material and forest reproductive material that were made in anticipation of the United Kingdom withdrawing from the European Union in March 2019. 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, so that is agreed.