EU-UK SPS Agreement: Food-related Standards Debate
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Lord Lansley
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EU-UK SPS Agreement: Food-related Standards
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Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab)
My understanding is that it is business as usual and that will continue while the negotiations are going on. If I am wrong, I will write to the noble Lord.
Lord Lansley (Con)
I declare an interest, as my wife’s company in Brussels works on the new genomic techniques that have been filed with the European Commission. The Minister might like, in the negotiations, to treat the question of alignment between our precision-breeding regulations and new genomic techniques from the European Commission as an opportunity for the European Commission to align with the United Kingdom or, in this case, with England. Perhaps we should also bring Scotland and Wales on board to our PBO regulations too.
Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab)
I would be very happy to make the suggestion.