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  Environment Bill - Schedule 16 - Use of Forest Risk Commodities in Commercial Activity
  
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  @ MP voted aye for a review of regulations applying to those using products whose production is associated with deforestation to take place sooner. 
  
  @ MP voted no for a review of regulations applying to those using products whose production is associated with deforestation to take place sooner later.
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted for a review of regulations applying to those using products whose production is associated with deforestation to take place between one and two years after the elements of the Bill enabling such regulations to be made comes into force. This was a year earlier than originally provided for in the Bill.
  
  MPs were considering the Environment Bill.[1][2]
  
  The motion supported by a majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :That this House agrees with Lords amendment 94
  
  Lords amendment 94[4] stated:
  
  :Page 234, line 27, leave out âsecondâ and insert âfirstâ
  
  
  The explanatory notes to the Lords amendments[5] state:
  
  :Lords Amendments 94 and 95 would amend sub-paragraph (4) of paragraph 17 and would require that the first review of the effectiveness of the legislation must be completed between the first and second anniversary of the Part 1 requirements coming into force.
  
  The amendment would have impacted paragraph 17 of Schedule 16 of the Bill[3] which began:
  
  :The Secretary of State must review the effectiveness of the Part 1 requirements and any Part 2 regulations (ârelevant provisionsâ) in accordance with this paragraph
  
  and stated:
  
  :(4) The first review must be completed during the periodâ 
  :(a) beginning with the second anniversary of the first date on which paragraphs 2 to 4 are fully in force, and
  :(b) ending with the third anniversary of the first date on which paragraphs 2 to 4 are fully in force
  
  The paragraphs in question relate to the regulation of agricultural products which are being produced on land which was forest. 
  
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  * [1] [https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2593 Parliament's webpage on the Environment Bill], Parliament.uk
  * [2] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/58-02/016/5802016en01.htm Explanatory notes to the Environment Bill, 26 May 2020], Parliament.uk
  * [3] [https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/41652/documents/310 The Environment Bill as of 26 May 2021], Parliament.uk
  * [4] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-02/0168/210168.pdf Lords amendments to the Environment Bill, 14 October 2021], Parliament.uk
  * [5] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-02/0168/en/210168env2.pdf Explanatory notes to the Lords amendments to the Environment Bill, 14 October 2021], Parliament.uk
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