Environment and Sustainability Committee

Meeting Venue: Committee Room 2 - Senedd
Meeting date: Thursday, 5 June 2014
Meeting time: 09.20
For further information please contact:
Catherine Hunt Second Clerk 029 2089 8026 ES.comm@wales.gov.uk

Agenda

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Informal pre-meeting (09:20 - 09:30)

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1 Introductions, apologies and substitutions

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2 Inquiry into the public forestry estate in Wales (09:30 - 10:30) (Pages 1 - 49)

E&S(4)-14-14 paper 1 : Maelor Forest Nurseries

E&S(4)-14-14 paper 2 : UPM Tilhill

E&S(4)-14-14 paper 3 : BSW Timber

E&S(4)-14-14 paper 4 : Confor

Mike Harvey, Director, Maelor Forest Nurseries

Peter Whitfield, UPM Tilhill

Gavin Adkins, Purchasing Director, BSW Timber

Martin Bishop, National Manager for Wales, Confor

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Break (10:30 - 10:40)

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3 Inquiry into the public forestry estate in Wales (10:40 - 11:40) (Pages 50 - 80)

E&S(4)-14-14 paper 5 : Coed Cadw, The Woodland Trust

E&S(4)-14-14 paper 6 : CLA

E&S(4)-14-14 paper 7 : Woodland Strategy Advisory Panel

Rory Francis, Communications Officer, Coed Cadw, The Woodland Trust

Andrew Bronwin, CLA

David Edwards, Woodland Strategy Advisory Panel

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4 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for item 5 (11:40)

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Private session

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5 Consideration of issues for scrutiny of the Minister for Natural Resources and Food (11:40 - 12:10)

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Break (12:10 - 13:15)

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Public session

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6 Inquiry into the public forestry estate in Wales - Evidence from Natural Resources Wales (13:15 - 14:15) (Pages 81 - 106)

E&S(4)-14-14 : paper 8

Ceri Davies, Executive Director for Knowledge, Strategy and Planning

Trefor Owen, Executive Director for National Services

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7 Papers to note

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Biodiversity - Paper from State of Nature partners  (Pages 107 - 112)

E&S(4)-14-14 : paper 9

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Natural Resources Wales - Further information following 7 May meeting  (Pages 113 - 118)

E&S(4)-14-14 paper 10

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Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s proposals for the M4 around Newport : Letter from the European Commission - Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive  (Pages 119 - 122)

E&S(4)-14-14 : paper 11

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