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The answer that we received was encouraging, as the Executive hopes to produce amending regulations shortly. We should just report the answer to the lead committee.
Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2002 (SSI 2002/147) The Executive has accepted that the explanatory notes to the instrument contain defective drafting.
New Economy Item 3 concerns the report on the inquiry into the impact of the new economy, which we produced last year. We have to decide whether that report should be submitted to the European Commission's open consultation on the e-economy.
From a political perspective, it seems that there is not much ambiguity about what the Scottish Executive has produced—the intention seems crystal clear to me.
They include the raising of fees for retrospective applications and a requirement on all local authorities to produce enforcement charters.We are confident that our package of measures will improve the situation.
Statistics and data about performance by industry and by individual businesses are produced ad nauseum but often lack credibility.I ask Bruce Cartwright to touch on competitiveness.