Australia FTA: Food and Agriculture

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 9 Nov 2021 Closed: 9 Nov 2022 Parliament page
The Government published the text of its Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Australia on 16 December 2021. The followed the publication of the agreement in principle in June 2021. The UK-Australia FTA is the first new trade deal negotiated “from scratch”/ that the UK Government will have signed since leaving … Read more
13 Recommendations
3 Conclusions
1 Report
6 Oral sessions
2 Letters
7 Events
Activity timeline 17 events
12 Oct
2022
Report published
12 Oct
2022
Correspondence
22 Jun
2022
Correspondence
17 Jun
2022
Report published
14 Jun
2022
Formal meeting (private meeting) · Room 5, Palace of Westminster
11 May
2022
Oral evidence
11 May
2022
Oral evidence
11 May
2022
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · Room 6, Palace of Westminster
11 May
2022
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · Room 6, Palace of Westminster
29 Mar
2022
Oral evidence
29 Mar
2022
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · Room 6, Palace of Westminster
8 Mar
2022
Oral evidence
Oral evidence sessions 6 sessions
11 May 2022
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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Chris Heaton · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs James Clarke · Department for International Trade Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt · Department for International Trade Victoria Prentis · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
11 May 2022
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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Professor Lorand Bartels · Trade and Agriculture Commission
29 Mar 2022
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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Dr Chris Kebbell · New Zealand High Commission His Excellency The Hon Bede Corry · New Zealand High Commission His Excellency the Honourable George Brandis QC · Australian High Commission Kieran Macdonell · Australian High Commission
8 Mar 2022
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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Andrew Opie · British Retail Consortium (BRC) Anna Sands · WWF James Russell · British Veterinary Association Kate Nicholls · UKHospitality Ms Orla Delargy · Sustain Sue Davies MBE · Which?
23 Feb 2022
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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Emily Rees · European Centre for International Political Economy Professor Fiona Smith · University of Leeds Professor Louise Manning · Royal Agricultural University Sarah Baker · Disability Unit Sarah Baker · Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
8 Feb 2022
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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Mr Phil Stocker · National Sheep Association Neil Shand · National Beef Association Nick von Westenholz · National Farmers' Union Peter Hardwick · British Meat Processors Association
Title HC No. Published Items Response
First report - Australia FTA: Food and Agriculture HC 23 17 Jun 2022 16 Responded
Recommendations & Conclusions
2 results
Clear
2 Recommendation Deferred
First report - Australia FTA: Food…
While the Government has argued that it has secured three safeguards to protect farmers it...
While the Government has argued that it has secured three safeguards to protect farmers it appears to us that only the general bilateral safeguard mechanism offers any real protection. The volumetric safeguards would only kick in if there were a … Read more
Government Response
The government states that the technical processes for how the bilateral safeguard mechanism will operate are currently under review and that Parliament will be updated on the outcome.
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8 Recommendation Deferred
First report - Australia FTA: Food…
We welcome the approach that the UK Government has taken to protecting the UK’s SPS...
We welcome the approach that the UK Government has taken to protecting the UK’s SPS requirements within negotiations on the UK-Australia FTA. It will be essential that the UK robustly maintains this position in negotiations with future trade partners who … Read more
Government Response
The government is reviewing how to implement remaining import controls in an improved way via the new Target Operating Model, which will be published in the Autumn, and the new controls regime will come into force at the end of 2023.
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Government Response AI assessment · 16 of 13 classified
Accepted 5
Accepted in Part 1
Acknowledged 8
Deferred 2
Total 13 recs + 3 conclusions
Correspondence 2 letters
12 Oct 2022 Correspondence from the Chair to Defra and DIT SoS re Australia FTA Govt response
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22 Jun 2022 To committee Letter from the Secretary of State for International Trade to the Chair regarding the formal pre-ratification scrutiny of the UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement Treaty, dated 14 June
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