Panel on Food Safety and Environmental Hygiene - Subcommittee to Study the Streamlining of Food Business Licensing (Agenda) 2 March 2005

I.	Confirmation of minutes of meeting (8:30 am - 8:35 am)
	LC Paper No. CB(2) 937/04-05 (issued on 23 February 2005)	-	Minutes of the meeting on 1 February 2005
II.	Existing licensing procedures and measures taken/to be taken to streamline the licensing systems (8:35 am - 10:25 am)
	LC Paper No. CB(2) 960/04-05(01) (attached)	-	Paper provided by the Health, Welfare and Food Bureau on "Existing food business licensing procedures and measures taken/to be taken to streamline the licensing system"
	LC Paper No. CB(2) 960/04-05(02) (attached)	-	Paper provided by the Home Affairs Department on "Procedures of processing of Certificate of Compliance for Club houses"
	LC Paper No. CB(2) 960/04-05(03) (attached)	-	Paper provided by the Economic Analysis and Business Facilitation Unit of the Financial Secretary's Office on "Work progress in streamlining food business licensing undertaken by the Subgroup on Business Facilitation, Economic and Employment Council"
III.	Any other business (10:25 am - 10:30 am) Relevant papers Please refer to the Appendix.

Council Business Division 2
Legislative Council Secretariat
25 February 2005

Appendix

LC Paper No. CB(2) 629/04-05 (Issued on 12 January 2005)	-	Outline of research study on food business licensing prepared by Research and Library Services Division of the Legislative Council (LegCo) Secretariat
LC Paper No. CB(2) 751/04-05(01) (Issued on 26 January 2005)	-	Background brief prepared by LegCo Secretariat on "Food business licensing"
LC Paper No. CB(2) 751/04-05(02) (Issued on 26 January 2005)	-	Extract from the minutes of meeting of the Panel on Food Safety and Environmental Hygiene on 14 December 2004
LC Paper No. CB(2) 751/04-05(03) (Issued on 26 January 2005)	-	Written submission from the Hong Kong Federation of Restaurants & Related Trades (Chinese version only)