Environment and Rural Development Committee, 19 Apr 2006
Meeting date: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Official Report
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Subordinate Legislation
Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006 (SSI 2006/151)<br />Products of Animal Origin<br />(Third Country Imports) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006<br />(SSI 2006/156)
Agenda item 2 is subordinate legislation. We have two instruments to consider under the negative procedure. The Subordinate Legislation Committee has considered both regulations and has commented on Scottish statutory instrument 2006/151, which deals with pesticides. Members have the relevant extract of that committee's 15th report.
I will make two brief comments. Having read the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006, I am no further ahead in understanding what the changes mean; I would need an explanation really to understand them. I will not delay our approval of the regulations, but they are not transparent because one would have to be a pesticides expert to make any sense of them.
I draw members' attention to the purpose of the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006, which deal with imports of feathers. We have had a letter from the minister providing an update on avian flu, which is relevant. We have, over the past few weeks, dealt with a raft of statutory instruments that have been introduced to deal with avian flu, and we have had lengthy discussions about it during our consideration of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Bill. I think that we will come back to the subject, but the regulations are a welcome step towards gearing people up to prevent avian flu from coming into Scotland.
Are members content with the instruments and happy to make no recommendations to Parliament?
Members indicated agreement.