Examination of Witnesses

Part of Fisheries Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 11:31 am on 6 December 2018.

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Andrew Clayton:

I would agree that the deal making might be made a kind of cleaner process through that bilateral discussion, but the big concern for me is that the precautionary objective brought into the Bill is insufficient. It actually undercuts the CFP; it is a lower level of ambition than exists in the CFP at the moment. The UK is signalling with this text as it stands that it will aim lower, and that will certainly make it harder to get that kind of agreement.