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  Subsidy Control Bill - New Clause 1 - Exemption: Agriculture
  
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  @ MP voted aye to exempt agricultural subsidies from conditions requiring them to be a proportionate and effective means of pursuing a policy, a last resort, and implemented in a way to minimise impacts on competition and investment.  
  
  @ MP voted no against exempting agricultural subsidies from conditions requiring them to be a proportionate and effective means of pursuing a policy, a last resort, and implemented in a way to minimise impacts on competition and investment.  
  
  The majority of MPs voted against exempting agricultural subsidies from conditions requiring them to be a proportionate and effective means of pursuing a policy, a last resort, and implemented in a way to minimise impacts on competition and investment.  
  
  MPs were considering the Subsidy Control Bill.[1][2][3]
  
  The Bill provided for state subsidies for businesses subject to them being proportionate and effective means of pursuing a policy, a last resort, and implemented in a way to minimise impacts on competition and investment. 
  
  The proposed new clause rejected in this vote was titled: ''Exemption: agriculture'' and stated:
  
  :(1) The subsidy control requirements in Part 2 of this Act do not apply toâ
  
  :(a) the giving of an agricultural subsidy, or
  
  :(b) the making of a subsidy scheme, so far as it relates to the giving of agricultural subsidies.
  
  :(2) For the purpose of subsection (1), a subsidy is âagriculturalâ if it is subject to the provisions of Part IV or Annex 2 of the Agreement on Agriculture.
  
  :(3) In this section âthe Agreement on Agricultureâ means the Agreement on Agriculture, contained in Annex 1A to [https://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/legal_e.htm#annex1 the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization], done at Marrakesh on 15 April 1994 (read with any adjustments necessary for context).
  
  The rejected new clause was accompanied by the following explanatory statement from its proposer:
  
  :This new clause exempts agricultural subsidies from the subsidy control requirements.
  
  
  
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  * [1] [https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3015/publications Parliament's webpage on the Subsidy Control Bill], Parliament.uk
  * [2] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-02/0135/210135.pdf Subsidy Control Bill as introduced on 30 June 2021], Parliament.uk
  * [3] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-02/0135/en/210135en.pdf Explanatory notes to the Subsidy Control Bill as introduced on 30 June 2021], Parliament.uk
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