Agricultural Products: UK Trade with EU
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether negotiations on a Common Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Area with the EU has begun.
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle
The UK is ready to move forward quickly to implement the outcomes agreed at the UK-EU summit.
We are already in discussions in some areas – Security Action for Europe (SAFE), Erasmus, Electricity linking - and in others (Sanitary and Phytosanitary / Emissions Trading Scheme) the EU is agreeing to their mandates. We stand ready to start talks as soon as those mandates are agreed.
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