Pesticides: Regulation

(asked on 26th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2019 to Question 231976, what the capacity assessment of the Expert Committee on Pesticides concluded with respect to whether the (a) annual budget and (b) staff capacity of the Committee and its secretariat would need to be increased in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.


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Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 1st April 2019

The annual budget of the Expert Committee on Pesticides would be increased in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.

Increases to the existing membership of the Committee and its secretariat would depend on the number of applications received in the UK for approval of active substances used in plant protection products and the issues they presented.

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