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Rural Development Contracts (Rural Priorities) (Scotland) Amendment (No 4) Regulations 2009 (SSI 2009/411)<br />Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009 (SSI 2009/412)
Sea Fishing (Prohibition on the Removal of Shark Fins) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2009 (SSI 2009/413)<br />Sheep and Goats (Identification and Traceability) (Scotland) Revocation Regulations 2009 (SSI 2009/415)
Zoonoses and Animal By-Products (Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009 (SSI 2009/416)<br />Control of Salmonella in Turkey Flocks (Scotland) Order 2009 (SSI 2009/417)
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Variation of Schedule 4) (Scotland) Order 2009 (SSI 2009/418)<br />Wildlife and Countryside (Registration and Ringing of Certain Captive Birds) (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (SSI 2009/419)
The next item is subordinate legislation, of which we have lots. We have six negative instruments to consider. There are eight instruments on the agenda, but two of them—the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009 (SSI 2009/412) and the Control of Salmonella in Turkey Flocks (Scotland) Order 2009 (SSI 2009/417)—cannot be considered until we have received the Subordinate Legislation Committee's report. Those instruments will have to be on the agenda for our next meeting.
I am pleased to see that there is an instrument on the removal of shark fins. That is an important issue.
My only comment is on the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009 (SSI 2009/412). There is someone who still thinks that we have a Scottish Executive rural affairs department rather than a Scottish Government rural affairs department.
Members indicated agreement.