European and External Relations Committee, 04 Nov 2008

Meeting date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Official Report 134KB pdf

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“Brussels Bulletin”

Agenda item 3 is the "Brussels Bulletin", which members have had a chance to read. Do members want to make any points?

The bulletin says that a financial crisis cell has been established. Do we have scope to consider how devolved jurisdictions such as ours fit into that? I see that a summit will be held on 7 November. Should we get details about that after it has happened?

Okay—the clerks will follow that up. Everybody is happy with that.

Do you want to ask the Scottish Government whether it is submitting anything to that summit through the UK Government?

That could be useful.

Do you have any other points?

Yes—I was waiting to see whether anyone else had comments.

A previous "Brussels Bulletin" referred to a directive on works councils, on which I thought that it would be useful to have information.

We have not received that yet.

I do not know whether we have received that information or whether it is in the pipeline.

We are waiting for a report.

Do members have any more comments? Has Jamie Hepburn missed anything?

No—that is it.

Everybody is happy to move on. We will go into private session, so we must clear the public gallery—that will take half an hour!

Meeting continued in private until 11:03.