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HANSARDDraft Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products and Common Agricultural Policy (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products and Common Agricultural Policy (Miscellaneous Amendments…08 Oct 2019HANSARDAnimal Health and Genetically Modified Organisms (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I will try to address some of those points as best I can. I completely share the view of the shadow Minister that we must never again take the sorts of risks in livestock…07 Oct 2019HANSARDTrade in Animals and Animal Products (Legislative Functions) and Veterinary Surgeons (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the Trade in Animals and Animal Products (Legislative Functions) and Veterinary Surgeons (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019…07 Oct 2019HANSARDTrade in Animals and Animal Products (Legislative Functions) and Veterinary Surgeons (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019There are two reasons: first, as I said, the EU SCoPAFF’s April agreement has expired and it is considering the matter again on 11 October. Although the ability to amend and…07 Oct 2019HANSARDTrade in Animals and Animal Products (Legislative Functions) and Veterinary Surgeons (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I am sure the hon. Gentleman will be aware that the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act does not say there cannot be a no-deal Brexit. It requires the Prime Minister to send a…07 Oct 2019HANSARDTrade in Animals and Animal Products (Legislative Functions) and Veterinary Surgeons (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I shall try to deal with as many of the points that have been raised as possible. Starting in reverse order with the point raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Windsor, it is…07 Oct 2019HANSARDAnimal Health and Genetically Modified Organisms (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the Animal Health and Genetically Modified Organisms (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019, No. 1229). This statutory…07 Oct 2019HANSARDAnimal Health and Genetically Modified Organisms (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My right hon. Friend mentions a request that, as a former incumbent of my post, he will know the industry has been making for some time. It is under consideration, and is…07 Oct 2019HANSARDAnimal Health and Genetically Modified Organisms (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019As I have made clear many times, this is a complex set of regulations. Some 80% of all the Department’s legislation comes from the European Union, so it has been a huge task for…07 Oct 2019HANSARDAnimal Health and Genetically Modified Organisms (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Yes, the changes in relation to GMOs are a few minor changes in language, following the recommendation of the Joint Committee. The regulations mean that we are bringing across the…07 Oct 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Agriculture)I beg to move, That the draft Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products (Transitional Arrangements etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, which were laid…01 Oct 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Agriculture)I beg to move, That the draft Import and Export Licences (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, which were laid before this House on 23 July, be approved. The purpose of…01 Oct 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Pesticides)Well, a point was made earlier that this has been an extraordinarily huge task of converting a highly complex body of EU law across into national law. When the EU (Withdrawal) Act…01 Oct 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Agriculture)Retained EU law means that the existing basic payment scheme will continue. The hon. Gentleman will be aware that the Agriculture Bill, which has been before the House, outlines a…01 Oct 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Pesticides)On the final point raised by the hon. Member for Ipswich (Sandy Martin), I addressed the issue of errors previously. Bringing across these statutory instruments is a vast…01 Oct 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Pesticides)Yes, I can confirm that, in the sense that all the draft regulations are about continuity—an approach to ensure simply that where authorisations are carried out and decisions made…01 Oct 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Pesticides)I beg to move, That the draft Pesticides (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, which were laid before this House on 17 July, be approved. Plant protection products, or…01 Oct 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Agriculture)I could not agree more. There is a mutual interest for all EU members and the UK to reach a sensible resolution to the current discussions. That is why the Government are…01 Oct 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Agriculture)Let me turn first to the points made by the shadow Minister. He highlighted the use in the explanatory memorandum of the term “fixes”, which he even put in quotes marks. In DEFRA,…01 Oct 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Agriculture)My right hon. Friend will be aware that we have always had a clear principle in this country of aiming for full cost recovery on licences, and these licences tend to be focused on…01 Oct 2019