Abattoirs: CCTV Debate
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Lord Tebbit
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(13 years, 12 months ago)
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Lord Henley
My Lords, that is a completely different question from the one on the Order Paper and has nothing whatever to do with slaughterhouses.
Lord Tebbit
Can my noble friend tell me whether the European Union has power to enforce CCTV in abattoirs?
Lord Henley
My Lords, my understanding is that the new regulation to which I referred—EU Regulation 1099/2009, which was agreed under the previous Government’s administration and came into force in 2009—constrains the use of national rules and would prohibit government action to require compulsory installation of CCTV in the future.