Justice 2 Committee, 03 Oct 2001
Meeting date: Wednesday, October 3, 2001
Official Report
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Convener's Report
The committee has received three documents from the European Committee for our interest. Members will remember our briefing session on the importance of Europe. We have decided that we would like to get more involved with these matters. However, at this stage, given our work load, I recommend that we simply note the documents that we have received.
The documents are listed in members' papers, but I should say for the benefit of the Official Report that they are: paper SP 2209, which includes proposals for a Council framework decision on combating the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography; paper SP 2210, which is a proposal for a Council framework decision to combat trafficking in human beings; and paper SP 2367, which is a communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the implementation of the European Union action plan on drugs 2000-04. The papers are available from the clerks.
We agreed that at some stage we would indicate to the European Committee and the Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs that we wanted to be notified of and examine any European legislation that they felt significantly or otherwise changed the basis of Scots law.
Did not we agree, albeit in the private briefing, that towards the end of this year or the beginning of next year, when the European Union and the Council of Ministers were doing their stuff we would decide on one subject and see it all the way through? That would be the more appropriate time to decide what we are going to do.
Yes.
That is what we agreed to do and we should do it at the appropriate time.
If there are no other comments, that is agreed.
We are involved with one document at the moment. If there is anything to report to members, we will do so at the appropriate time.