Economy, Energy and Fair Work Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Official Report 846KB pdf

European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018

Renewables Obligation (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

Agenda item 3 is consideration of 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 a proposed UK statutory instrument. The notification suggests that this is a category A proposal. In other words, it is a technical one with minimum policy choice or only one obvious policy solution. The UK Government proposes to amend legislation to remove references to the UK being a member state and to the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Equally, references to the role of the European Commission will, of course, no longer apply and therefore fall away. The actual legislation will continue to function exactly as it does now.

Is the committee content for those matters to be dealt with by statutory instruments laid at Westminster? If the committee is content, I will write to the Minister for Energy, Connectivity and the Islands to notify him of the committee’s decision.

Members indicated agreement.

We now move into private session.