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HANSARDMoney Laundering and Transfer of Funds (Information) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018When there is a change, will there be any kind of notification for businesses and others? One of the biggest problems that, if you like, completely innocent people can experience…23 Jan 2019HANSARDMarket Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018As we have got on to the subject of fees, when the credit rating agencies want to get approval from ESMA, they have to pay a fee. Therefore, will we not have a comparable fee or…23 Jan 2019HANSARDEducation: Treating Students Fairly (Economic Affairs Committee Report)My Lords, this was an amazing inquiry to be part of. In particular, it was amazing to visit the students and apprentices, and I came away thinking, “I want to go round again”. But…16 Jan 2019HANSARDAlternative Investment Fund Managers (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018Once again, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Bates, for his explanations. I declare my interest as a director of the London Stock Exchange PLC as some of these provisions could cover…15 Jan 2019HANSARDAlternative Investment Fund Managers (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I understand fully that to some extent we do not need a third-country passport because our national private placement regime is sufficient to do almost the same job. But in my…15 Jan 2019HANSARDInterchange Fee (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I am not quite sure that I buy that line. I can use the examples of the regulations we are about to debate, or the ones on occupational pensions. There, funds contain UK assets…15 Jan 2019HANSARDInterchange Fee (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I thank the Minister for his introduction. It is said that if you drown, your past life floats before your eyes. I feel a bit like that every time we meet to discuss these…15 Jan 2019HANSARDIntellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018The point about the impact assessment concerns me. The noble Lord, Lord Bates, who is eagerly awaiting our later exchanges, knows that I have been here before. Forgive me if I am…14 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018One small point struck me, not having looked at this before we commenced proceedings. I fully understand the transfer of the pending applications and the ability to file a new…14 Jan 2019HANSARDIntellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018The issue is where something has come from. You could export it under the terms of a licence, but you might have got it from some third country. In the Wella case, it was the US.…14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I have two points before the Minister sits down. First, I do not think he replied to my point about whether there was any intended alignment with the supplementary protection…14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018Maybe I should start with the last thing; I understand the point but I have not investigated it myself, so I cannot say whether it is a concern or not. However, the gist of it is…14 Jan 2019HANSARDIntellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, I did not come to Grand Committee today expecting to speak on intellectual property. I am here to do financial services but, since I spent the best part of 40 years as a…14 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for his response. As the noble Lord, Lord Tunnicliffe, pointed out, the meat, if you like, in this group of amendments is in Amendment 6 and some mechanism of…08 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]My Lords, a couple of interesting points have been made in the context of this amendment. As it reads, it looks reasonably acceptable as we do not want gold-plating, which could…08 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]My Lords, I agreed with the amendments of Lord Adonis; I do not agree that they are not needed, even with Amendment 7. There is still the issue of sequencing in terms of what is…08 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]I certainly was talking in terms of what was delegated and how it was dealing with the things that it then had to deal with. I am not sure that that was the same as the mover’s…08 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]My Lords, I have Amendment 16 in this group. As the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson, said, I added my name to his amendments and I thank him for trying to bring some better order to the…08 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]08 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for his response. I shall deal first with the point that this might be legislation that will never need to be implemented. But the fact is that something like…08 Jan 2019