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64 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the committees, boards, companies or other bodies under the auspices of his Department which were established from 1997 to date otherwise than pursuant to statute or statutory instruments; if there are proposals to give the bodies in question a statutory basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17823/02]
73 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the committees, boards, companies or other bodies under the auspices of his Department which were established since 1997 to date pursuant to statutory instrument; the particulars of the statutory instrument in each case; if there are proposals to have the bodies in question given a basis in statute as opposed to statutory instrument; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17873/02]
I propose to take Questions Nos. 64 and 73 together.
The Agriculture Appeals Office was established by way of primary legislation in May 2002.
The following committees-bodies were established on a non-statutory basis: the Agri-Food 2010 committee, the beef task force, the sheepmeat forum, the monitoring committee on implementation of the recommendations of the sheep forum, the technical committee on meat inspection fees, the food agency co-operation council, the food quality assurance schemes review group, the food institutional research measure committee, the food NDP monitoring sub-committee, the food industry development group, the task force on agricultural education and training, the strategy group for the pig industry, the Agenda 2000 consultative group, the interdepartmental committee on dangerous and exotic animals, the inter-agency group re Silvermines investigation, the BSE scientific advisory committee, the equine liaison committee, the research stimulus fund committee, the monitoring committee under the protocol on direct payments to farmers, the organic development committee, the mid-term review consultative committee on milk quotas, the milk quota review group, the advisory committee on the role of women in agriculture, the monitoring committee on the CAP rural development plan 2000-2006, the consumer liaison panel, the advisory forum on farm animal welfare, the scientific committee on animal health and welfare, the WTO consultative group, the food labelling group, the regional customer panels and the beef consultative committee on the mid-term review.
I do not consider it necessary to establish any of the above on a statutory basis.
