European and External Relations Committee, 25 Mar 2003
Meeting date: Tuesday, March 25, 2003
Official Report
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EC/EU Legislation (Implementation)
Since August, we have been discussing with the Executive the format of a paper on the transposition and implementation of EC/EU legislation in Scotland. We asked for a way of highlighting new directives to avoid our going over the same directives because they had not dropped off the paper or because we had not realised that a change had been made. The shading of the new directives on the paper is a welcome step forward. The paper also contains further information about several directives for which we had asked.
I welcome the fact that the Executive has taken on board the recommendations, which will improve the way in which the committee deals with the information. We will go through the paper page by page, because dealing with each directive individually would be cumbersome. Page 1 relates to the finance and central services department. Page 2 contains the additional information that the committee sought from the Executive and we are reasonably satisfied with that.
Page 1 of 3 from the Food Standards Agency deals with directives that we have seen before. We have no comments on pages 2 and 3 from the Food Standards Agency. The next page contains further information for which we had asked. We have no comments on the page from the justice department or pages 1 to 4 on agriculture from the environment and rural affairs department. Page 5 contains a reply from SEERAD. We have no comments on pages 1 to 3 from the environment group of the environment and rural affairs department. Page 4 from that group contains further information on directive 2001/81/EC.
Do members agree to the recommendations in the paper?
Members indicated agreement.