Pesticides
(asked on 6th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will apply the precautionary principle to authorisation of use of pesticides after Brexit.
This question was answered on 20th November 2017
Our approach to the regulation of Plant Protection Products upon exit from the European Union will be to convert existing EU regulations into UK law through the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill at the point of exit.
The EU Plant Protection Product regulation makes specific reference to the precautionary principle and this will therefore be retained when we convert that EU regulation into our national law.