Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]

Meeting date: Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Official Report 621KB pdf

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Subordinate Legislation

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Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/42)

Our next agenda item is consideration of two negative Scottish statutory instruments: the Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024 and the Ethical Standards in Public Life etc (Scotland) Act 2000 (Codes of Conduct for Members of certain Scottish Public Authorities) Amendment Order 2024—I swear that the titles get longer every time.

The instruments have been laid under the negative procedure, which means that their provisions will come into force unless the Parliament agrees to a motion to annul them. No motions to annul have been lodged.

Let us consider the Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024. As the paper by the clerks explains, the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee has drawn the regulations to our attention on the general reporting ground on the basis that the explanatory note was too brief. The Scottish Government responded to that feedback by providing a revised explanatory note for the instrument, which the clerks have included in the papers for this item.

Do members have any comments on the regulations? It would be worth while putting on the record that the quality of the explanatory notes and policy notes from the Scottish Government varies considerably. Some of them are extremely good but, on occasion, the committee has felt that it was not provided with all the information that it required. Perhaps we should make that comment to the Scottish Government but not make any recommendations in relation to the regulations.

I have no issue with that, convener. We should draw attention to the good work of the DPLR Committee, which has done its job well.

Thank you. We will make sure that that is reflected in our comments.

Does the committee agree to make no recommendations in relation to the instrument but to note the comments that have been made?

Members indicated agreement.

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Ethical Standards in Public Life etc (Scotland) Act 2000 (Codes of Conduct for Members of certain Scottish Public Authorities) Amendment Order 2024 (SSI 2024/39)

If there are no comments on the second instrument, I invite the committee to agree to make no recommendations in relation to it. Are we agreed?

Members indicated agreement.

That concludes the public part of our meeting.

11:06 Meeting continued in private until 11:23.