 I welcome everyone to the sixth meeting of the Standards, Procedure and Public Appointments Committee in 2023. Our first agenda item is to welcome a new member to the committee, Emma Harper. Do you have any interests that you would like to declare at this at the start of the committee? Thank you, convener. Good morning to everybody. It's nice to be here and I have nothing to declare. Excellent, thank you. With Emma joining us, of course it means we have lost a member, which is Collette Stevenson MSP, who has moved on to other things, and I would like both formally to put on the record my thanks and the committee's thanks to Collette's work over this period and invite the committee to agree that they're happy for me to write to Collette just to thank her for a time spent on this committee. Excellent. Our second agenda item is in relation to taking matters 4 and 5 from the agenda in private. Agenda item 4 is consideration of a standing order rule changes. Agenda item 5 is consideration of a report we've received from the commissioner for ethical standards in public life in Scotland. Are the committee in agreement to take these in private? I'm grateful. Agenda item 3 then. Our next item is for the committee to take evidence on an SSI 2023 oblique 81, the Scottish local government elections amendment 2023. We've received these in the papers. Do any members have any comments on the proposed regulations? Bob Doris. Just very briefly, convener, I welcome them, and I look forward, I think, at section 6A that's been added to four European nations where there will be reciprocal candidacy rights provided. Just to put on record that I very much hope that that will be extended in short order for all European Union nationals who have made home in Scotland to have these full rights, and it's just a pity or shame that we're in a situation where it's only four nations because of Brexit, but that may be a policy drift, and I'll leave that, convener. I am content and agreeable to the provisions before us. Excellent. As those watching may be aware, the committee are very aware of the treaty arrangements having discussed these on a number of matters in previous meetings. Would any other member like to make a comment before I formally put the question to the committee? If not, are members content to note the instrument and agree to make no recommendations? Agreed. Excellent. I will now move this meeting into private.