Health and Sport Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Official Report 467KB pdf

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European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018

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Food and Feed Safety and Hygiene (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (SSI 2019/52)

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Food Composition, Labelling and Standards (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (SSI 2019/53)

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Nutrition (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (SSI 2019/54)

We move on to consideration of three instruments relating to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.

A protocol has been agreed between the Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament on the process for considering SSIs that are laid under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. The protocol sets out an approach that categorises SSIs as being of high, medium or low significance to assist committees’ prioritisation for scrutiny, and gives the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee a role in highlighting to a lead committee SSIs in respect of which it disagrees with the Scottish Government’s categorisation.

All three SSIs have been categorised as being of low significance. Scottish Ministers have also determined to apply the negative procedure to scrutiny of the three SSIs.

The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered all three instruments at its meeting on 26 February 2019 and agreed that the instruments had been given the appropriate categorisation. We need only consider the matter of categorisation today; we will return to matters of substance at a later date. The categorisation of all three instruments is that they are of low significance. Do members agree with that?

Members indicated agreement.

Thank you.

11:31 Meeting continued in private until 11:34.