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HANSARDIntellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, paragraph 12.2 of the Explanatory Memorandum to these regulations says: “There may be some costs to businesses parallel exporting from the UK to the EEA”, as a result of…14 Jan 2019HANSARDIntellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, the question that is coming up time and again in the Grand Committee is: why was formal consultation not conducted before rather than…14 Jan 2019HANSARDIntellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for giving way. Could she explain to the Grand Committee—some of us are not familiar with all the details of this—what parallel exporting is…14 Jan 2019HANSARDIntellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, with great consideration, the Minister took a number of interventions on his speech and covered quite a number of points. However, a lot of issues are raised by the…14 Jan 2019HANSARDIntellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018The noble Lord makes an extremely important point, and not just in respect of paragraph 2.1. I have before me the whole of Part 2, which has a whole series of statements made by…14 Jan 2019HANSARDIntellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018Not content.14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018Before the noble Lord sits down, he said that he was going to cover the issue of consultation later in his remarks and he urged me not to intervene. He has not covered the issue…14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I am very grateful to the Minister for giving way. Can he tell us—the same issue came up with the previous regulation—what consultation there has been on the regulation?14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, I do not think that that is a satisfactory response at all. Our consideration of this regulation, which we are just about to engage in, crucially depends on the Minister…14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords—14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, I do not think it is for the convenience of the Committee, because the noble Lord has just made a direct allegation that I was not present in my place to listen to his…14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, in the light of what the noble Lord has said, does he not think it extraordinary that paragraph 12.3 of the Explanatory Memorandum says: “An Impact Assessment has not…14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, I think the noble Lord is making a case which is of great concern to the Grand Committee, not least because of the impact on jobs and investment. Can the noble Lord,…14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, I have rarely heard in Grand Committee a speech of greater concern to a major industrial sector and to patients, so I hope that the noble Lord will in no way be…14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018The noble Lord is making a powerful point. Did he note the remark made by the Minister in the debate on the last regulation: that the reason why there had not been full and proper…14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018Before the noble Lord sits down, in the concluding remarks of his extremely powerful speech he referred to part 2 of the Explanatory Memorandum, which is where the Minister makes…14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, in my now quite long experience of the House I have found that on most occasions when policies are being tested and explained, amendments are being considered and so on,…14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018They turn out to be lawyers. I have nothing against lawyers; my noble friend Lady Kingsmill is a distinguished lawyer. It is fine that lawyers should be consulted, but others…14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, my noble friend has made an extremely grave allegation. Would the Minister care to say whether he is correct that precisely one person in one company was consulted about…14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I think that the Grand Committee will be extremely concerned to have information on this point. If what my noble friend has said is the case, it would be a situation without…14 Jan 2019