New Clause 1
Import of agricultural goods after IP completion day
“(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 to—
(a) animal 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 UK
production standards, to be updated annually, to which goods
imported under subsection (1) would have to adhere.
(3) ‘Agricultural goods’ for the purposes of this section, mean—
(a) any livestock within the meaning of section 1(5),
(b) any plants or seeds, within the meaning of section 22(6),
(c) any product derived from livestock, plants or seeds.
(4) ‘IP completion day’ has the meaning given in section 39 of
the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020.”—(.)
(North Dorset) (Con):...The new
clause is also supported by a host of radical crypto-anarchic
organisations: the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; the
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; the
Country Land and Business Association; the Soil
Association; that well known anarchic group the Wildlife Trust;
LEAF—Linking Environment and Farming; the Tenant Farmers
Association; the National Farmers Union; and, worst of all, that
Leninist organisation the Woodland Trust...
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