Rural Affairs and Environment Committee, 04 Feb 2009
Meeting date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Official Report
212KB pdf
Subordinate Legislation
Rural Development Contracts (Rural Priorities) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009 (SSI 2009/1)<br />Animal By-Products (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009 (SSI 2009/7)
Plant Health (Import Inspection Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009 (SSI 2009/8)
Good morning and welcome to the meeting. I remind everybody, as I usually do, to get all their mobile phones, BlackBerrys and other bits of electronic equipment switched off or switched to non-receiving mode. We have received long-term apologies from Karen Gillon, who is still on maternity leave. I welcome Rhoda Grant, who is Karen's continuing substitute.
The main purpose of today's meeting is to take evidence on the waste reduction and recycling provisions in the Climate Change (Scotland) Bill, but we have one or two items to get out of the way first.
Under agenda item 1, we have three negative instruments to consider. There are comments from the Subordinate Legislation Committee on the Rural Development Contracts (Rural Priorities) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009 (SSI 2009/1) and an extract of its report has been circulated to members as paper RAE/S3/09/4/4. No members have raised any points on the instruments and no motions to annul have been lodged. Do members agree not to make any recommendation in relation to the instruments?
Members indicated agreement.