Rural Affairs and Environment Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, February 9, 2011

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Decision on Taking Business in Private

Good morning. I welcome everyone to the Rural Affairs and Environment Committee’s fourth meeting in 2011. I remind everyone to switch off their mobile phones and brambles, as they impact on the broadcasting system.

Agenda item 1 is to decide whether to take items 4, 5 and 6 in private. Item 4 is consideration of a European Union proposal that may raise subsidiarity concerns. Legal advice from the Parliament’s solicitors will be considered, and it is customary to consider such advice in private. However, if we agree to do anything substantive under that item, it will be done by way of a letter that makes our views public. Under items 5 and 6, we will discuss the evidence that we will hear today on the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 and the future of agricultural support in Scotland respectively. Do members agree that we should take in private those items and any future discussions of evidence and draft reports in relation to the future of agricultural support in Scotland inquiry and the post-legislative scrutiny of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003?

Members indicated agreement.