UK Shellfish Exports

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:34 pm on 8 February 2021.

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Photo of George Eustice George Eustice The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 4:34, 8 February 2021

My hon. Friend makes an important point. Under the trade and co-operation agreement, there is provision for a specialised committee dealing with SPS issues. There are some early discussions on what that would look like—it would probably be a senior level technical group, probably led by our chief veterinary officer. At the moment, the issue is that the EU, because it has not even got around to ratifying the TCA, is not yet in a place to have formal discussions on how we would form those groups. That of course does not prevent us from doing what we are doing, which is working very closely with the EU at a technical level to iron out the difficulties.