Environment and Rural Development Committee, 24 Oct 2006
Meeting date: Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Official Report
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Subordinate Legislation
Environmental Noise (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (SSI 2006/465)<br />Plant Health (Scotland) Amendment Order 2006 (SSI 2006/474)
We will crack on with our business and move to agenda item 3. I am conscious that numbers are slightly thinner, but I want to keep going.
We have two negative statutory instruments to consider. The committee will remember that we considered the Environmental Noise (Scotland) Regulations 2006 at a previous meeting. We asked the Scottish Executive a series of questions that we wanted answered before we let the regulations go further. Members will have a copy of the response, which certainly answers most of my questions.
I still have questions about what happens when noise has been mapped, and I presume that there will be issues to do with remedial action when particular noise problems are identified. I presume also that that will affect future major construction projects for rail and road, which will have major noise implications and in relation to which issues will arise to do with compensation or a greater emphasis on noise baffling. However, that is clearly for the future. It was worth asking the questions and I hope that members are happy. We also have the comments from the Subordinate Legislation Committee on the regulations.
The Subordinate Legislation Committee made no comments on the Plant Health (Scotland) Amendment Order 2006.
Does any member have a comment on either the regulations or the order? If not, we will be content with them and happy to make no recommendation to the Parliament. Are we agreed to do that?
Members indicated agreement.