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  Trade Bill - New Clause 11 - Standards for Imported Agricultural Goods After Transition Period for Leaving the European Union
  
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  @ MP voted aye to require imported agricultural goods to meet animal health and welfare, environmental, plant health, food safety and other standards which are at least as high as those which apply to UK produced agricultural goods.
  @ MP voted no not to require imported agricultural goods to meet animal health and welfare, environmental, plant health, food safety and other standards which are at least as high as those which apply to UK produced agricultural goods.
  
  The majority of MPs voted not to require imported agricultural goods to meet animal health and welfare, environmental, plant health, food safety and other standards which are at least as high as those which apply to United Kingdom produced agricultural goods.
   
  
  
  MPs were considering the Trade Bill[1].
  
  The proposed new clause rejected in this vote was titled: ''Import of agricultural goods after IP completion day'' and stated:
  
  :(1) After IP completion day, agricultural goods imported under a free trade agreement may be imported into the UK only if the standards to which those goods were produced were as high as, or higher than, standards which at the time of import applied under UK law relating toâ
  
  :(a) animal health and welfare,
  
  :(b) protection of the environment,
  
  :(c) food safety, hygiene and traceability, and
  
  :(d) plant health.
  
  :(2) The Secretary of State must prepare a register of standards under UK law relating toâ
  
  :(a) animal health and welfare,
  
  :(b) protection of the environment,
  
  :(c) food safety, hygiene and traceability, and
  
  :(d) plant health
  
  :which must be met in the course of production of any imported agricultural goods.
  
  :(3) A register under subsection (2) must be updated within seven days of any amendment to any standard listed in the register.
  
  :(4) âAgricultural goodsâ, for the purposes of this section, means anything produced by a producer operating in one or more agricultural sectors listed in Schedule 1.
  
  :(5) âIP completion dayâ has the meaning given in [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/1/section/39 section 39 of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020].â
  
  The rejected new clause was accompanied by the following explanatory statement from its proposer:
  
  :This new clause would set a requirement for imported agricultural goods to meet animal health and welfare, environmental, plant health, food safety and other standards which are at least as high as those which apply to UK produced agricultural goods.
  
  
  
  * [1] [https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2019-21/trade.html Parliament's webpage on the Trade Bill]
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