European and External Relations Committee, 14 Mar 2006

Meeting date: Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Official Report 253KB pdf

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Convener's Report

The final agenda item is the convener's report, which is short. The first item in the report is to inform everyone that they will receive their briefing packs for the Brussels visit after the meeting.

The second item is correspondence from the Finance Committee's convener, who has written to invite all committees to respond to that committee's inquiry into accountability and governance. Given that our committee has no remit in relation to any of the bodies that are listed in the letter, are members content for me to decline the invitation to submit evidence?

Members indicated agreement.

The third and final item in the report is the response from the Scottish Executive to points that members made when they considered the pre and post-EU council scrutiny documents at our meeting two weeks ago. I thank Executive officials for responding so quickly. Do members have comments?

Could we have a copy of Mr McCabe's letter? Annex B says that it was given to the committee on 28 February, but I do not remember seeing it.

The letter has not been received.

The convener's report says:

"Mr McCabe has written directly to the Committee with responses to the Committee on these two issues."

We have not received the letter yet, but I have no doubt that it will arrive this week.

Should the report say, "Mr McCabe will write"?

The letter is in the post.

Meeting closed at 16:09.