Extract from Lords motion to approve the Environmental Protection
(Microbeads) (England) Regulations 2017 The Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs (Lord Gardiner of Kimble) (Con):...As I and other
noble Lords have mentioned, this whole area needs to be dealt with
in collaboration internationally, with the EU and other nations.
The importance of the environment is consistently discussed at the
international fora in which this country...Request free trial
Extract from Lords
motion to approve the Environmental Protection (Microbeads)
(England) Regulations 2017
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Lord Gardiner of Kimble)
(Con):...As I and other noble Lords have mentioned, this
whole area needs to be dealt with in collaboration internationally,
with the EU and other nations. The importance of the environment is
consistently discussed at the international fora in which this
country participates—whether it is the G7, the G20 or the UN. We
have ensured that at recent meetings, especially at the UN
Environment Assembly, we were clear on the reasons for our ban and
that we support action to improve our oceans. Fortunately, many
other countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia,
New Zealand and France are already working on similar bans.
Although not all are as strong as ours, the majority of them will
come into effect in July this year. The EU is currently considering
its position, and other countries such as India are looking to make similar
legislative changes. Of course, we will make sure that we use
future events to get our message across and show leadership in this
area.
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debate on Brexit: Trade in Non-financial Services (EUC
Report)
(Con):...I also recommend that we pay more attention to
the EU-Japan deal. That started when I was the Minister for Trade
and Investment. I remember how sceptical we all were at the time
that much progress would be made, given the difficulty of the
Japanese domestic market environment. In fact, it seems to have
gone rather rapidly, and substantial progress has been made. There
is still some way to go, of course, not least as this is a mixed
competence deal which will require unanimity among the member
states and will therefore be vulnerable to the Walloon effect.
Nevertheless, it has clear potential. It covers business services,
financial services, especially insurance, telecommunications,
transport, distribution and courier services and it proposes the
establishment of a regulatory co-operative committee which will
methodically look through the different non-tariff barriers that
exist on both sides and propose solutions. I believe that we should
watch this carefully, because at the end of the day Japan is more
important than Canada and this is the harbinger of future Asian
deals, with China, with ASEAN and with India. New deals will be more and more about
non-tariff barriers, about regulatory dialogue and about services:
this is important to us...
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