Environment and Sustainability Committee

Meeting Venue: Committee Room 3 - Senedd
Meeting date: Thursday, 30 April 2015
Meeting time: 09.30
For further information please contact:
Alun Davidson Committee Clerk 0300 200 6565 SeneddEnv@Assembly.Wales

Agenda

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1 Introductions, apologies and substitutions

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2 Agricultural policy - priorities for 2015-16: Evidence from stakeholders (09:30-10:30) (Pages 1 - 35)

Stephen James, President, NFU Cymru

Dylan Morgan, Deputy Director and Head of Policy, NFU Cymru

Emyr Jones, President, Farmers’ Union of Wales

Nick Fenwick, Director of Agricultural Policy, Farmers’ Union of Wales

Dennis Matheson, Chairman, Tenant Farmers Association Cymru

E&S(4)-12-15 Paper 1

E&S(4)-12-15 Paper 2

E&S(4)-12-15 Paper 3

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3 Agricultural policy - priorities for 2015-16: Evidence from stakeholders (10:30-11:00)

Ceri Davies, Rural Affairs Committee Chairman, Wales YFC

Carys Vaughan, Rural Affairs Committee Vice-Chairman, Wales YFC

Representative from Future Farmers of Wales (TBC)

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Break (11:00-11:10)

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4 Agricultural policy - priorities for 2015-16: Evidence from stakeholders (11:10-12:00) (Pages 36 - 44)

Tim Bevan, Farm Business Advisor, Soil Association

Arfon Williams, Countryside Manager, RSPB

Tony Little, Project Officer, Organic Centre Wales

Haydn Evans, Welsh Organic Group

Keri Davies, Welsh Organic Group

E&S(4)-12-15 Paper 4

E&S(4)-12-15 Paper 5

E&S(4)-12-15 Paper 6

E&S(4)-12-15 Paper 7

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5 Papers to note

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Inquiry into the European Commission's proposed prohibition of driftnet fisheries: Correspondence from the European Commission  (Page 45)

E&S(4)-12-15 Paper 8

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Financial Scrutiny: Correspondence from the Minister for Natural Resources  (Pages 46 - 47)

E&S(4)-12-15 Paper 9

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6 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting

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7 Consideration of the Committee's forward work programme (12:00-12:10) (Pages 48 - 50)

E&S(4)-12-15 Paper 10

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