Environment and Rural Development Committee, 16 Nov 2005
Meeting date: Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Official Report
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Subordinate Legislation
Salmonella in Broiler Flocks (Sampling Powers) (Scotland) Regulations 2005<br />(SSI 2005/496)<br />Animal and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Scotland) Amendment (No 2) Regulations 2005 (SSI 2005/502)
Pollution Prevention and Control (Public Participation etc) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (SSI 2005/510)
There are three documents in front of us under agenda item 2: the Salmonella in Broiler Flocks (Sampling Powers) (Scotland) Regulations 2005; the Animal and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Scotland) Amendment (No 2) Regulations 2005; and the Pollution Prevention and Control (Public Participation etc) (Scotland) Regulations 2005. Are there any questions on the statutory instrument on salmonella or on the one on animals and animal products?
No.
I have a couple of comments on the pollution prevention and control regulations. Members will recall that I went to the Subordinate Legislation Committee last week to give our views on how we deal with statutory instruments.
The instrument seems to bring up a couple of interesting issues. It is clearly to be welcomed for improving public participation. In particular, it gives non-governmental organisations opportunities to be consulted and to be involved in the application of pollution prevention and control regulations, but it also deals with quite a few deregulatory mechanisms. I could not work out the significance of those mechanisms. I felt that the public participation elements were clearly set out in the accompanying note, but I did not get the same sense about the deregulatory side of the instrument. "Public Participation etc" does not draw attention to the fact that it fulfils two objectives, and I would like to get a bit more information from the Executive about that. I understand that it is already in force, so it is not a question of delaying it, but of getting a bit more information about it.
If there are no other comments, are members content with the instruments and happy to make no recommendation to the Parliament?
Members indicated agreement.