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EC Fertilisers (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (SSI 2006/543)<br />Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Scotland) Amendment (No 3) Regulations 2006 (SSI 2006/548)
Water Environment (Controlled Activities) (Third Party Representations etc) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (SSI 2006/553)<br />Water Environment (Relevant Enactments) Order 2006 (SSI 2006/554)
The Subordinate Legislation Committee made a number of comments on the EC Fertilisers (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (SSI 2006/543). Members have extracts of that committee's 43rd report. Members will note that our background briefing says that a proposed directive on pesticides is on the way. Accordingly, the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Scotland) Amendment (No 3) Regulations 2006 (SSI 2006/548) makes a fairly small amendment to the regulations. Are there any comments?
Only that I thought that glyphosate was a herbicide rather than a pesticide—but my knowledge dates from the time when I used to use chemicals on my garden.
I would not dare to comment on that. Do you want to make a formal comment on that point?
No. Perhaps the European Union's definition of a pesticide is a little different from the gardeners' one.
Are we content to make no recommendation to Parliament on the instruments?
The minister will join us for our next agenda item, but he is not due to arrive until 11.30. Accordingly, I will suspend the meeting until that time. Members have a lot of paperwork for the European agenda. If anyone wants to follow up anything in the briefing that we have been provided with by Tom Edwards from the Scottish Parliament information centre, they can ask him about it, as he is with us today.
Meeting suspended.
On resuming—
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