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The discussions are through COSLA but they are also directly through our partnership arrangements with the local authorities through the senior officer groups. The code that you are talking about, which came out of the Löfstedt review, is currently being developed and does not come into play until April next year.
As an example, it wants to check a sample of Scottish taxpayers every year to ensure that they remain Scottish taxpayers and that they are properly coded as such. That is an example of assurance work that will be specific to Scotland.
This should include consideration of a website providing colour coded information to make clear what decisions the Scottish Government is taking about areas of EU law and policy to meet its commitment to align with EU law.
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That the Parliament agrees that the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Human Intelligence Sources - Code of Practice) (Scotland) Order 2015 draft be approved.
The letter provides a lot of information on a European disclosure code but, having read it, I am not convinced that that will meet the standards of a sunshine act.
The chief investigating officer deals with councillors, members of public bodies and their code. The standards commissioner deals with the code of conduct for MSPs and the Interests of Members of the Scottish Parliament Act 2006.
For the purpose of the 2005 report, maternal deaths were defined as deaths for which the underlying cause was coded to International Classification of Disease 10 (ICD10) Chapter XV codes O00-O99; Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium.