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Good morning, colleagues. I welcome all of you to the 18th meeting of the European and External Relations Committee in 2008. I have received apologies from Charlie Gordon.
Gil Paterson had hoped to stick his head in to say thank you to the committee and the clerks for his time on the committee. He asked me to pass on his best wishes.
Thank you very much, Alex. That brings us to agenda item 1, which is a declaration of interests. We are pleased to welcome our new member of the committee, Keith Brown, who replaces Gil Paterson. Before I invite Keith to declare any interests, I know that the committee will want to join me in thanking Gil for his contribution to the committee in the past year and a half.
I refer the committee to my entry in the register of members' interests, and I add that I am a member of the European Committee of the Regions. That is all.
Thank you.