Amendments proposed to the Food Standards Bill - continued House of Commons

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Mr James Paice
Mrs Caroline Spelman
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

61

Clause     25,     page     13,     line     22,     leave out subsection (2).

   

Mr James Paice
Mrs Caroline Spelman
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

62

Clause     25,     page     13,     line     27,     leave out subsection (3).

   

Mr James Paice
Mrs Caroline Spelman
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

63

Clause     25,     page     13,     line     30,     leave out subsection (4).

   

Mr James Paice
Mrs Caroline Spelman
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

64

Clause     25,     page     13,     line     37,     leave out 'subsections (1), (2) and (4)' and insert 'subsection (1)'.


   

Mr James Paice
Mrs Caroline Spelman
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

65

Clause     27,     page     15,     line     11,     leave out 'the authority making them' and insert 'the Secretary of State'.

   

Mr James Paice
Mrs Caroline Spelman
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

66

Clause     27,     page     15,     leave out lines 19 to 25 and insert 'by the Secretary of State'.


   

Mr James Paice
Mrs Caroline Spelman
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

67

Clause     28,     page     15,     line     26,     leave out from 'and' to 'shall' in line 27 and insert 'Parliament'.

   

Mr James Paice
Mrs Caroline Spelman
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

68

Clause     28,     page     15,     line     31,     leave out subsection (2).

   

Mr James Paice
Mrs Caroline Spelman
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

69

Clause     28,     page     15,     line     38,     leave out 'authority concerned' and insert 'Secretary of State'.


   

Mr Andrew George
Dr Peter Brand

113

Clause     29,     page     15,     line     44,     leave out 'from time to time' and insert 'regularly'.

   

Mr Andrew George

85

Clause     29,     page     16,     line     11,     leave out subsection (3) and insert—

    '(3) Section 118 of the Medicines Act 1968 (restrictions on disclosure of information) shall not apply in relation to the disclosure of information to the Agency for the purpose of a consultation under this section.

    (4) Where information of a description mentioned in section 118 of that Act is disclosed to the Agency for the purpose of such consultation, the Agency—

      (a) shall take account of any considerations of confidentiality attaching to the information; but

      (b) may disclose the information (or any of it) for the purpose of any of its functions if it appears to the Agency to be in the public interest to do so.'.


   

Mr James Paice
Mrs Caroline Spelman
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

70

Clause     32,     page     17,     line     27,     after 'unless' insert 'Parliament and'.


   

Mr James Paice
Mrs Caroline Spelman
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

71

Clause     39,     page     20,     line     20,     leave out from 'shall' to end of line 23 and insert 'be met proportionately to population out of money provided by Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, the Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly'.

   

Mr James Paice
Mrs Caroline Spelman
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

72

Clause     39,     page     20,     leave out line 24.


NEW CLAUSES

Duties regarding availability of food

   

Mr James Paice
Mrs Caroline Spelman
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

NC1

To move the following Clause:—

    'In providing advice under sections 6 and 7 the Agency must take into account the overriding importance of not restricting the availability of food to the consumer and that restriction of the availability of food should only take place when it remains the only solution.'.


Duties regarding imported food

   

Mr James Paice
Mrs Caroline Spelman
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

NC2

To move the following Clause:—

    ' .—(1) The Agency has the same functions and must exercise the same degree of scrutiny in relation to imported food as to domestically produced food.

    (2) The Agency must not allow the sale of any imported food that does not meet the same standards as domestically produced food in the methods by, and standards to which, it is produced.'.


Duties regarding labelling of food products

   

Mr James Paice
Mrs Caroline Spelman
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

NC3

To move the following Clause:—

    ' .—The Agency has a duty to ensure that all food products are accurately labelled with a complete list of ingredients, whether they are genetically modified, the country of origin of each major ingredient and the system of production where appropriate.'.


Meat Hygiene Service to continue as separate agency

   

Dr Peter Brand
Mr Andrew George

NC4

To move the following Clause:—

    'The Meat Hygiene Service shall continue to operate and exercise its functions separately from the Food Standards Agency.'.


   

Mr Andrew George

86

Schedule     2,     page     24,     line     16,     at end insert—

    '(     ) Before appointing a person as chairman or member of the advisory committee, the authority making the appointment shall have regard to the desirability of securing that a variety of skills and experience is available among the members of the committee (including public interest representation).'.

   

Mr Andrew George

87

Schedule     2,     page     25,     line     7,     at end insert—

    '(     ) Before appointing a person as chairman or member of the advisory committee, the authority making the appointment shall have regard to the desirability of securing that a variety of skills are represented.'.


   

Mr Andrew George

88

Schedule     3,     page     27,     line     14,     leave out from 'time to time' and insert 'regularly'.


   

Mr James Paice
Mrs Caroline Spelman
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

117

Schedule     4,     page     30,     line     26,     leave out from 'Food"' to end of line 27.


 
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