Rural Affairs Committee, 31 Aug 1999

Meeting date: Tuesday, August 31, 1999

Official Report 136KB pdf

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Appointment of Reporters

The first item on the agenda concerns an issue that has arisen in the past week—the Highlands and Islands consultative draft plan 2000-2006. It has been suggested that two members of this committee should be appointed as reporters, should attend the meeting of the European Committee at 2 o'clock today, and should, if invited, take part in that committee's process for dealing with the document.

I had made it known that we intended to do that and Rhoda Grant and John Farquhar Munro were suggested as suitable reporters. Unfortunately, John Farquhar Munro is not present today and I was unable to contact him. It therefore falls to us to find a second person who is appropriately qualified and has the right background knowledge to represent this committee in discussions with the European Committee.

We have to go through the process formally. I nominate Rhoda Grant and Lewis Macdonald to act as reporters on behalf of this committee at the meeting of the European Committee. Are there any further nominations?

If there are no further nominations, do the members of the committee agree that Rhoda Grant and Lewis Macdonald should represent our interests at that meeting? It is agreed.