European and External Relations Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Official Report 371KB pdf

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European Union Bill

Further to the discussion at our previous meeting, we are invited to consider the paper on the UK European Union Bill. The paper sets out some background to the bill and highlights the inquiry that the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee is undertaking. We are invited to consider whether we wish to make a submission to the House of Commons inquiry and, if so, on what basis it should be made. The deadline is Friday 10 December. Do the members who are here have any comments on whether we should put in a submission?

If not, I thank the clerks for their advice. I do not know what we would do without them—I put that on the record. We will agree to make a submission to the European Scrutiny Committee’s inquiry into the European Union Bill on the basis that we will draw its attention to the implications that the bill might have for devolved matters and request that the issue be taken into account in consideration of the bill. The submission will be agreed by correspondence because, as I said, it has to be in by Friday 10 December. Is that agreed?

Members indicated agreement.

13:18 Meeting continued in private until 13:22.