Panel on Food Safety and Environmental Hygiene
Subcommittee to Study the Streamlining of Food Business Licensing

Meeting on Tuesday, 17 May 2005 at 4:30 pm
in Conference Room A of the Legislative Council Building

Revised agenda

I.	Confirmation of minutes of meeting (4:30 pm - 4:35 pm)
	LC Paper No. CB(2) 1523/04-05 (Issued on 11 May 2005)	-	Minutes of the meeting on 2 March 2005
	LC Paper No. CB(2) 1397/04-05 (Issued on 28 April 2005)	-	Minutes of the meeting on 5 March 2005
	LC Paper No. CB(2) 1525/04-05 (Issued on 13 May 2005)	-	Minutes of the meeting on 4 April 2005
II.	Date of next meeting and items for discussion (4:35 pm - 4:40 pm)
	LC Paper No. CB(2) 1342/04-05(01) (Issued on 21 April 2005)	-	Letter dated 14 April 2005 to the Financial Secretary to convey the Subcommittee's views on ways to make the licensing system for food businesses more effective
	LC Paper No. CB(2) 1546/04-05(01) (attached)	-	Proposed agenda for the meeting for June 2005
III.	Liquor licensing (4:40 pm - 5:35 pm)
	LC Paper No. CB(2) 1155/04-05(10) (Issued on 29 March 2005)	-	Paper prepared by Health, Welfare and Food Bureau on "Liquor licensing procedures"
	LC Paper No. CB(2) 1526/04-05(01) (Issued on 10 May 2005)	-	Extract from the minutes of the meeting between Legislative Coucil (LegCo) Members and Yau Tsim Mong District Council members on 13 February 2003
	LC Paper No. CB(2) 1526/04-05(02) (Issued on 10 May 2005)	-	Summary of the concerns about liquor licensing raised by the Wan Chai District Council (WCDC) members at the meeting between LegCo Members and WCDC members on 5 May 2005
	Relevant papers
	LC Paper No. CB(2) 1526/04-05(03) (Issued on 10 May 2005)	-	Extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Panel on Food Safety and Environmental Hygiene on 29 October 2001
	LC Paper No. CB(2) 1546/04-05(02) (attached)	-	Extract from the Administration's response to concerns raised by the Panel at the meeting on 29 October 2001
	LC Paper No. CB(2) 1155/04-05(12) (Issued on 29 March 2005)	-	Paper prepared by LegCo Secretariat on "Views and suggestions made by deputations at the meeting on 5 March 2005" (Item IV(b))
IV.	Proposed measures to improve the food business licensing regime (5:35 pm - 6:05 pm)
	LC Paper No. CB(2) 1546/04-05(03) (attached)	-	Paper provided by the Administration
V.	Withdrawn/Abandoned cases of food business licence applications (6:05 pm - 6:25 pm)
	LC Paper No. CB(2) 1546/04-05(04) (attached)	-	Paper provided by the Administration
VI.	Any other business (6:25 pm - 6:30 pm) Other relevant papers Please refer to the Appendix.

Council Business Division 2
Legislative Council Secretariat
13 May 2005

Appendix

Relevant papers

Papers provided by the Administration
LC Paper No. CB(2) 960/04-05(01) (Issued on 25 February 2005)	-	Paper provided by the Health, Welfare and Food Bureau (HWFB) 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) (Issued on 25 February 2005)	-	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) (Issued on 25 February 2005)	-	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"
LC Paper No. CB(2) 1155/04-05(02) (English version issued on 29 March 2005, Chinese version issued on 31 March 2005)	-	Paper provided by the HWFB on "Number of food business licence applications and time taken for processing applications"
LC Paper No. CB(2) 1155/04-05(03) (Issued on 29 March 2005)	-	Paper provided by HWFB on "Certification system for issue of provisional food business licence"
LC Paper No. CB(2) 1155/04-05(04) (Issued on 29 March 2005)	-	Paper provided by the Buildings Department on "Work of the Buildings Department in processing applications for food business licences"
LC Paper No. CB(2) 1155/04-05(05) (Issued on 29 March 2005)	-	Paper provided by the Fire Services Department on "Work of the Fire Services Department in processing applications for food business"
LC Paper No. CB(2) 1155/04-05(06) (Issued on 29 March 2005)	-	Paper provided by the Home Affairs Department on "Processing of Certificate of Compliance for Club-houses"
LC Paper No. CB(2) 1155/04-05(07) (Issued on 29 March 2005)	-	Paper provided by HWFB on "Licensing of food businesses at Langham Place, Mongkok"
LC Paper No. CB(2) 1155/04-05(08) (Issued on 29 March 2005)	-	Paper provided by HWFB on "Fees for food business licences"
LC Paper No. CB(2) 1155/04-05(09) (Issued on 29 March 2005)	-	Paper provided by the Economic Analysis and Business Facilitation Unit of the Financial Secretary's Office on "Private sector involvement in cinema licensing"
LC Paper No. CB(2) 1155/04-05(11) (Chinese version only) (Issued on 29 March 2005)	-	Letter dated 12 March 2005 from the Secretary to the Liquor Licensing Board
Papers provided by LegCo Secretariat
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) 1155/04-05(01) (Issued on 29 March 2005)	-	Paper prepared by the Legislative Council (LegCo) Secretariat on "Requests to the Administration for additional information and statistics on food business licensing pursuant to the meeting on 2 March 2005"
Submissions
LC Paper No. CB(2) 966/04-05(02) (Issued on 25 February 2005)	-	Written submission from A S Watson Group - PARKnSHOP (English version only)
LC Paper No. CB(2) 1007/04-05(01) (Issued on 4 March 2005)	-	Written submission from Association of Restaurant Managers Limited (Chinese version only)
LC Paper No. CB(2) 999/04-05(01) (Issued on 4 March 2005)	-	Written submission from California Red Limited (Chinese version only)
LC Paper No. CB(2) 966/04-05(06) (Issued on 25 February 2005)	-	Written submission from De Rodeo Catering Limited (Chinese version only)
LC Paper No. CB(2) 1007/04-05(02) (Issued on 4 March 2005)	-	Written submission from Hong Kong Catering Industry Association (Chinese version only)
LC Paper No. CB(2) 751/04-05(03) (Issued on 26 January 2005)	-	Written submission from Hong Kong Federation of Restaurants & Related Trades (Chinese version only)
LC Paper No. CB(2) 966/04-05(01) (Issued on 25 February 2005)	-	Written submission from Hong Kong Federation of Restaurants & Related Trades (Chinese version only)
LC Paper No. CB(2) 966/04-05(03) (Issued on 25 February 2005)	-	Written submission from Hong Kong Japanese Restaurants Association (Chinese version only)
LC Paper No. CB(2) 966/04-05(05) (Issued on 25 February 2005)	-	Written submission from King Bakery (Chinese version only)
LC Paper No. CB(2) 1007/04-05(03) (Issued on 4 March 2005)	-	Written submission from Maxim Caterers Limited (English version only)
LC Paper No. CB(2) 999/04-05(02) (Issued on 4 March 2005)	-	Written submission from Swire Beverages Limited (English version only)
LC Paper No. CB(2) 966/04-05(04) (Issued on 25 February 2005)	-	Written submission from Tao Heung Holding Limited (Chinese version only)