The LegCo Reporter 2003-2004		Issue No. 11 (18 December 2003)
At its meeting on 17 December 2003, the Legislative Council passed the following bill: Employees Compensation Assistance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2003. At the same meeting, the Council passed the following three resolutions: (1) Resolution moved by the Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food relating to the Pharmacy and Poisons (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulation 2003 and the Poisons List (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulation 2003. (2) Resolution moved by the Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food relating to the Pharmacy and Poisons (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulation 2003 and the Poisons List (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulation 2003. (3) Resolution moved by Hon Margaret NG relating to the extension of the period for amending the Summary Disposal of Complaints (Solicitors) Rules. The following two motions with no legislative effect were also passed by the Council: (1) Motion on "Digital 21 Strategy", moved by Hon SIN Chung-kai as amended by Hon Howard YOUNG "That this Council considers that the Government should take the opportunity of reviewing the Digital 21 Strategy to promote the use of information technology ('IT') by local enterprises, the public and the Government itself so as to achieve the target of enhancing Hong Kong's competitiveness and creating business opportunities for the IT industry; the Government should also enhance the exploitation of the market opportunities in the Mainland for the local telecommunications industry brought about by the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement, tie in with the Mainland's IT policies and understand the complementary advantages of the IT industries in both places, with a view to facilitating enterprises in Hong Kong in developing the Mainland market or co-operating with the Mainland enterprises in receiving IT goods orders from the world market, developing products jointly or promoting Mainland products in the world market, thereby achieving mutual benefits." (2) Motion on "Labelling Scheme on Nutrition Information", moved by Hon Fred LI Wah-ming "That this Council urges the Government to expeditiously introduce a mandatory labelling scheme on nutrition information for prepackaged food and draw up a legislative timetable to implement, in three years' time, the first and second phases of the scheme as proposed in the consultation paper, so as to facilitate consumers in choosing foods that are beneficial to health; besides, as the international community has not yet arrived at a consensus on how to regulate foods for infants and foods prepared for people with special dietary needs, this Council also asks the Government to carry out a study as soon as possible, to explore the feasibility of including these food products in the scheme."