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HANSARDProduct Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019That the Grand Committee do consider the Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019. Relevant document: 17 th Report from the Secondary…04 Mar 2019HANSARDProduct Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, I forget who it was who said, “Never apologise, never explain”, but I will start with an apology for the sheer size of this SI, which has received some comment—not just…04 Mar 2019HANSARDProduct Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I will certainly write to the noble Baroness on that and I hope that we can give further and better particulars, as they say in the law. She will then know exactly whom we have…04 Mar 2019HANSARDProduct Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019That is not a direct cost of the SI; it is a cost of leaving the EU. That is why it was not part of the impact assessment. I will, as I am planning to do for one or two other…04 Mar 2019HANSARDProduct Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019That will be a matter for the deal. I was talking about what was publicly available from RAPEX. What we will make available and other such matters go beyond what we are debating…04 Mar 2019HANSARDDesigns and International Trademarks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, I will start with consultation and explain what we did. I will not repeat what I said on the previous SI, but the important thing is that, although we were not able to…04 Mar 2019HANSARDDesigns and International Trademarks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, the Intellectual Property Office has been preparing for a range of outcomes to our negotiation with the EU. The regulations form part of that preparation and are…04 Mar 2019HANSARDDesigns and International Trademarks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019That the Grand Committee do consider the Designs and International Trademarks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019. Relevant document : 16th Report from the Secondary…04 Mar 2019HANSARDIntellectual Property (Copyright and Related Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I commit to writing to both noble Lords on that issue. I beg to move.04 Mar 2019HANSARDIntellectual Property (Copyright and Related Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018That the Grand Committee do consider the Intellectual Property (Copyright and Related Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018. Relevant document : 12th Report from the…04 Mar 2019HANSARDNational Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2019My Lords, I join both the noble Baroness, Lady Donaghy, and the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, in offering my thanks to the Low Pay Commission. I had not realised that the noble…04 Mar 2019HANSARDProduct Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I make no comment. I assure the Committee that this approach has been designed to increase understanding and reduce the number of similar instruments that would otherwise be…04 Mar 2019HANSARDNational Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2019My Lords, the regulations were laid before the House on 28 January 2019. Their purpose is to increase the national living wage and all the national minimum wage rates from 1 April…04 Mar 2019HANSARDIntellectual Property (Copyright and Related Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, the regulations were laid before the House on 19 December 2018. Copyright law is largely harmonised internationally by a series of multilateral treaties, to which the UK…04 Mar 2019HANSARDProduct Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019The figure that I have is 2.54 kilograms, but I am quite happy to be corrected.04 Mar 2019HANSARDIntellectual Property (Copyright and Related Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, I stress—I think I made this clear—that I used the words “round table” in the plural. There were a number of round tables and I am sure matters of the sort that are…04 Mar 2019HANSARDIntellectual Property (Copyright and Related Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, I am afraid I cannot give any figure of that sort to the noble Lord and I am not sure it will be possible to do so. If I can do better, I will certainly write to him,04 Mar 2019HANSARDIntellectual Property (Copyright and Related Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I thank all noble Lords for their contributions. I will start off with consultation. At the time we were developing these regulations, we were in the early stage of negotiations.…04 Mar 2019HANSARDDesigns and International Trademarks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I am glad that the noble Lord is prepared to accept that point. Obviously, we could not follow the Cabinet Office rules—I was trying to make that clear. They are not strict in…04 Mar 2019HANSARDEnergy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018My Lords, these regulations, laid before the House on 23 November last year, will amend the domestic minimum standard provisions within the Energy Efficiency (Private Rented…26 Feb 2019