Economy and Fair Work Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, September 15, 2021

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Subordinate Legislation

Recognition of Professional Qualifications (Amendment etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (SI 2021/574)

We move to agenda item 4, which is covered in paper 3. The committee is invited to consider the consent notification for the Recognition of Professional Qualifications (Amendment etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021. The Scottish Government gave its consent to the instrument during the campaign recess.

The purpose of the instrument is to make minor amendments to revoke savings provisions made in respect of the alert mechanism under the Recognition of Professional Qualifications (Amendment etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (SI 2019/312). Following the end of the transition period, the European Commission confirmed that it had withdrawn all alerts made by United Kingdom regulators, which made it necessary to amend the 2019 regulations to remove the statutory obligations in question, as they had become inoperable.

Are members content to note the consent notification?

Members indicated agreement.

Thank you. We now move into private session for the remaining agenda items.