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I welcome everyone to the European and External Relations Committee's fourth meeting in 2007. Item 1 is to decide whether to take in private items 6 to 9, which are the committee's draft response to the European Commission's green paper on a maritime policy, the committee's draft report on the inquiry into the transposition and implementation of European Union directives in Scotland, our draft legacy paper and our draft annual report.
I agree to taking in private all the items except the response to the maritime policy. That does not constitute a report; it is a response. I go along with discussing draft reports in private, which has kind of become a tradition, but the response to the maritime policy is well worth discussing in public. If others feel similarly, that is fine; if not, I will let the matter go.
The document is a draft response that the committee has not yet agreed.
I think that, technically, the document is a committee report. Members may well want to amend it.
The response contains recommendations.
Will we discuss the final outcome at another meeting?
The intention is that this will be our last meeting of the session.
Hear, hear.
Of course, that is entirely up to members, and depends on how the meeting progresses. Does Phil Gallie wish to press his point?
No, I do not.
Thank you. The committee agrees to take those items in private.