Concise Minutes - Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Meeting Venue: Hybrid: Committee room

4 Tŷ Hywel and video Conference via

Zoom

Meeting date: Wednesday, 21 June 2023

Meeting time: 09.34 - 12.29
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/13358

Hybrid

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Attendance

Category

Names

Members of the Senedd:

Heledd Fychan MS (Chair) (In place of Llyr Gruffydd MS)

Janet Finch-Saunders MS

Huw Irranca-Davies MS

Delyth Jewell MS

Jenny Rathbone MS

Joyce Watson MS

Witnesses:

Dr Nerys Llewelyn Jones, Interim Environmental Protection Assessor for Wales

Natalie Prosser, Office for Environmental Protection

Dame Glenys Stacey, Office for Environmental Protection

Mark Roberts, Environmental Standards Scotland

Neil Hemington, Welsh Government

Owen Struthers, Welsh Government

Dion Thomas, Welsh Government

Nicholas Webb, Welsh Government

Committee Staff:

Marc Wyn Jones (Clerk)

Elizabeth Wilkinson (Second Clerk)

Lukas Evans Santos (Deputy Clerk)

 

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1       Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest

1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting.

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2       Annual scrutiny of operation of interim environmental protection measures - evidence session with Office for Environmental Protection and Environmental Standards Scotland

2.1 The Committee received evidence from representatives of the Office for Environmental Protection and Environmental Standards Scotland.

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3       Annual scrutiny of operation of interim environmental protection measures - evidence session with the Interim Environmental Protection Assessor for Wales

3.1 The Committee received evidence from representative of the Interim Environmental Protection Assessor for Wales.

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4       Papers to note

4.1 The papers were noted.

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4.1   Bus services

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4.2   The Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) Methodology Paper

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4.3   Inter-Institutional Relations Agreement - 39th British-Irish Council Summit

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4.4   Biodiversity and the nature emergency - COP15 Implementation

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4.5   Packaging Waste (Data Collection and Reporting) (Wales) Regulations 2023

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4.6   Warm Homes programme

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5       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of today's meeting

5.1 The motion was agreed.

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6       Annual scrutiny of operation of interim environmental protection measures - consideration of evidence received under items 2 and 3

6.1 The Committee considered the evidence received under items 2 and 3.

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7       Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Technical briefing from the Welsh Government

7.1 The Committee received evidence from Welsh Government officials.

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8       The Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Consideration of approach to Stage 1 scrutiny

8.1 The Committee considered the evidence received under item 7.

8.2 The Committee considered and agreed its approach to Stage 1 scrutiny of the Bill.

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