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Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (No 7) (Scotland) Order 2001
There is nothing substantive on the order, but the committee may wish to offer to explore, with the Executive, whether the procedure for imposing such controls could be improved. Because of the nature of the topic and the structure of the Scottish fishing industry, any number of these orders and amendments have to be produced. They are time consuming, but that is not to say that they are necessarily a bad thing. They are necessary for the fishermen, whose livelihoods are at risk. However, there may be a better way to impose controls, so perhaps the committee would be minded to ask the Executive whether we could explore, with the Executive, the possibility of amending the procedures for imposing the necessary controls.
So we are talking about situations that are straightforward and routine, with nothing controversial or novel—situations that, like this, are repetitive.
The orders are repetitive, but the Executive may come back to us and say, "Yes, the process appears to be repetitive, but the actual detail is not; it is different in every case." The wee boxes that appear in those grids are all different. However, it may be possible to do something, so we can offer to discuss the matter with the Executive.
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