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Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee 08 December 2020

08 Dec 2020 · S5 · Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee

Item of business

Subordinate Legislation

Invasive Non-native Species (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc) Regulations 2020 [Draft]

Martin, Gillian SNP Aberdeenshire East Watch on SPTV

No other member wishes to ask a question. We move to agenda item 4. I invite the minister to move motion S5M-23440. Motion moved, That the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee recommends that the Invasive Non-native Species (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2020 draft be approved.—Mairi Gougeon

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S5M-23440 Invasive Non-native Species (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2020 [draft] Motion

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The Convener SNP

Item 3 on our agenda is an evidence-taking session on draft regulations. I welcome the Minister for Rural Affairs and the Natural Environment, Mairi Gougeon....

The Minister for Rural Affairs and the Natural Environment (Mairi Gougeon) SNP

I would like to make some introductory remarks. The purpose of the draft regulations is to ensure that the safeguards against invasive non-native species th...

Mark Ruskell Green

Thanks very much for that outline, minister. Will NatureScot and SEPA sit on the new committee or the scientific forum? I am trying to work out where they wi...

Mairi Gougeon SNP

I am happy to explain how the committee and the scientific forum will be formed, and I will give a bit of background. An invasive species programme board wa...

Liz Smith Con

I have a brief question. Obviously, the issue is extremely technical and quite difficult. Are you trying to overcome a time difference in ensuring alignment ...

Mairi Gougeon SNP

Working through some of the secondary legislation is definitely not an easy challenge. To put things in very simplistic terms, there was a contested area in ...

Liz Smith Con

The Convener SNP

No other member wishes to ask a question. We move to agenda item 4. I invite the minister to move motion S5M-23440. Motion moved, That the Environment, Cl...

The Convener SNP

If members have any comments to make, this is the time to say so by indicating that in the chat function. It does not look like anybody has any comments to m...

The Convener SNP

I thank the minister and her officials for coming in front of us today.