Select Committee on Business and Enterprise Eighth Report


ANNEX 1: LETTER FROM THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEES TO THE DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENTERPRISE AND REGULATORY REFORM

The Trade in Goods (Categories of Controlled Goods) Order 2008

BERR wrote to the Committees on Arms Export Controls on 30 May inviting comments on the draft Trade in Goods (Categories of Controlled Goods) Order 2008 by 13 June.

In the time available the Committees have not been able to meet but I have taken informal soundings on the draft Order. On the basis that the Order goes some way to meet the Committees' recommendations made in previous reports that the extra-territorial reach of the legislation should be extended and that there is scope to make further changes in the third tranche of secondary legislation the Committees raise no objection to the proposed Order.

The Committees would be grateful for an assurance that BERR will provide at least two months for the Committees to consider the third tranche of changes, which I understand may emerge in the autumn.

June 2008



 
previous page contents next page

House of Commons home page Parliament home page House of Lords home page search page enquiries index

© Parliamentary copyright 2008
Prepared 17 July 2008