European and External Relations Committee, 18 Mar 2008

Meeting date: Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Official Report 245KB pdf

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Decision on Taking Business in Private

Welcome to the seventh meeting this calendar year of the European and External Relations Committee. Before I move on to the first agenda item, members will wish to note that it is Emma Berry's last meeting before she moves on a year's secondment to, of all places, the House of Commons, where she will take up a position with the Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Committee.

We should offer our condolences.

I will leave that to you, Alex.

We hope that Emma will be back in the Scottish Parliament in a year. I am sure that we all wish to thank her for the brilliant work that she has done over the past two years. We will miss her very much. Thank you very much, Emma, and all the best in London.

I have apologies from John Park for this morning's meeting.

The first item this morning is for the committee to decide whether it wishes to take item 4, a paper by the clerk on the committee's work programme, in private. Do members agree to that?