European and External Relations Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Official Report 334KB pdf

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Decision on Taking Business in Private

I welcome everyone to the first meeting in 2012 of the European and External Relations Committee. I request that all mobile phones and any other electronic devices be switched off, as they interfere with the sound equipment. Helen Eadie has sent her apologies, as she has another engagement. I welcome Neil Findlay, who is substituting for her. Jamie McGrigor has been held up and will join us later.

Agenda item 1 is consideration of whether to take items 4 and 5 in private. Item 4 is our draft approach to the next phase of the inquiry into horizon 2020, and item 5 is a report from the committee’s round-table discussion of European Union structural funds, which was held on 13 December. Is the committee agreed to take those items in private?

Members indicated agreement.