Inevitably this means there will be cases where the Scottish 1 Government’s approach to legislation may differ from the EU.” • Examples of SG policy alignment with EU principles are unlikely to result in reduced barriers to trade and cooperation between Scotland and the EU; by contrast examples of legislative alignment may mitigate or reduce barriers to trade and cooperation which would otherwise have arisen between Scotland and the EU. • In response to concerns of the CEEAC Committee regarding transparency of decision-making on the EU alignment policy, the SG committed to increase the volume and detail of the information it was providing to the Scottish Parliament on the matter.