Common frameworks are agreements setting out how the UK Government and devolved governments will work together to make decisions about the law and policy in certain devolved areas formerly governed by EU law. Read more about what common frameworks are on our SPICe blog.
Common frameworks are available to be scrutinised by the Scottish Parliament. The committees of the Scottish Parliament lead on scrutinising common frameworks within their remits. The Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee considers the wider implications of common frameworks.
SPICe publishes a briefing on each common framework entered into by the Scottish Government. You can find all SPICe briefings on common frameworks here. SPICe has published blogs on why it is important for common frameworks to be scrutinised and how the Scottish Parliament can do so which may also be of interest.
Common frameworks go through several stages as they are developed:
You can find out more about individual frameworks entered into by the Scottish Government and their scrutiny status below.
Scrutiny completed:
- Food and Feed Safety and Hygiene framework
- Hazardous Substances Planning framework
- Nutrition Labelling, Composition and Standards framework
- Public Health Protection and Health Security framework
- The Blood Safety and Quality Provisional framework
- The Organs, Tissues and Cells (apart from embryos and gametes) framework
- Food compositional standards and labelling framework
- Public Procurement framework
- Late Payment framework
- Radioactive Substances framework
- Air Quality framework
- Integrated pollution prevention and control: developing and setting of Best Available Techniques (BAT) framework
- Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) and Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (F-gases) framework
- Chemicals and pesticides framework
- Fisheries Management and Support framework
- Agricultural support framework
- Animal health and welfare framework
- Fertilisers framework
- Organics framework
- Plant health framework
- Plant varieties and seeds framework
- Emissions Trading System (ETS) framework
- Resources and Waste framework
Scrutiny not yet started:
Further frameworks are currently being developed and will be published by the Cabinet Office after they are provisionally agreed. The following frameworks applying to Scotland have not been published as yet: