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Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his oral statement of 1st February, Official Report, 362 c524, on the banning of imports, how many of the precedents cited related to the legal grounds of (a) animal health and (b) public morality. - (Holding answer 26 February...

Asked by

Tim Yeo (Conservative)

Answering body

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 May 2001

Reference

368 c459W;368 c459-60W; 150876

House

House of Commons

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what checks are made on the ingredients in the feed given to turkeys in the principal French production units supplying the British market. - (Holding answer 2 December 1999).

Asked by

Tim Yeo (Conservative)

Answering body

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 December 1999

Reference

340 c527W; 101076

House

House of Commons

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what quantity of turkey meat has been imported from France in each of the past three years; and what is the estimate for 1999. - Includes table and figures. (Holding answer 2 December 1999).

Asked by

Tim Yeo (Conservative)

Answering body

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

29 November 1999

For answer on

6 December 1999

Answered on

6 December 1999

Mr. Yeo: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what quantity of turkey meat has been imported from France in each of the past three years; and what is the estimate for 1999. [101075] Mr. Nick Brown: [holding answer 2 December 1999]: Official Overseas Trade Statistics show that UK imports of turkey carcase meat, offal and meat and offal preparations from France during 1996-98 and January to August 1999 were as shown in the table. Tonnes _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Turkey imports from France 1996 1997 1998 {1}1999 Carcase meat (whole birds 27,370 25,453 19,175 7,766 and cuts) Meat and offal preparations 384 747 746 407 Offal 161 389 196 120 Total 27,915 26,588 20,117 8,293 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} January-August It is not possible to make an accurate forecast of 1999 imports, since the September to December period accounts for a major, but not constant, proportion of annual imports (over 60 per cent. in 1998). However, overall turkey imports from France during January to August 1999 were nearly 5 per cent. higher than for the same period in 1998.

Date

6 December 1999

Reference

340 c351W;340 c351-2W; 101075

House

House of Commons

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what checks are made on the welfare standards of turkeys imported from France. - Includes ref to Dir91/628/EEC and Dir95/29/EEC and Welfare of Animals (Transport) Order 1997. (Holding answer 2 December 1999).

Asked by

Tim Yeo (Conservative)

Answering body

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 December 1999

Reference

340 c352W; 101077

House

House of Commons

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if a Government health warning will be issued on the risk of E. Coli and salmonella poisoning from eating French turkeys without adequate precautions. - (Holding answer 2 December 1999).

Asked by

Tim Yeo (Conservative)

Answering body

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 December 1999

Reference

340 c351W; 101078

House

House of Commons

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what was the outcome of the Agriculture Council held in Brussels on 14th-15th June; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Jim Hood (Labour)

Answering body

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

15 June 1999

For answer on

17 June 1999

Answered on

17 June 1999

Mr. Hood: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what was the outcome of the Agriculture Council held in Brussels on 14-15 June; and if he will make a statement. [87373] Mr. Nick Brown: I represented the United Kingdom at a meeting of the European Union Agriculture Council in Luxembourg on 14-15 June. Concluding a negotiation launched under the UK Presidency last year, the Council reached a unanimous landmark agreement (Spain abstaining) on battery cages for laying hens, the farming system which is most heavily criticised on grounds of animal welfare. From 1 January 2003, any new battery cages must meet new and more welfare-friendly standards. Conventional battery cages will be banned altogether after the end of 2011. One of my aims was to accommodate non-cage systems of the kind which many UK producers have voluntarily adopted out of concern for animal welfare, and I am pleased to have secured terms which will allow producers who have such systems to keep them, without significant change also until 31 December 2011. I regard it as important that, as we raise standards of animal welfare in the European Union, our producers should not be undermined by producers in third countries operating on lower standards. This week's agreement includes a firm undertaking from the Commission to seek wider international agreement on animal welfare standards in the next round of World Trade Organisation negotiations which starts early next year. The Council also reached unanimous agreement on standards for organic livestock, ending nearly three years' discussion. Consumers and producers will benefit from knowing that all livestock products sold as organic must in future conform to a minimum set of requirements applicable throughout the EU. It remains open to each member state to set stricter (but not less strict) standards for its own producers. I intend that there should be early discussion between Government and UK organic farming organisations about the implementation of the new rules. In the light of the problem of dioxin contamination in Belgium, the Council agreed on the urgent need to improve the monitoring and control of foodstuffs, and in particular invited the Commission to carry out a thorough review of feedingstuffs legislation and labelling. The Council also agreed the 1999 CAP price proposals by qualified majority, Italy voting against. This largely prolongs the status quo for the 1999-2000 marketing year, in advance of the Agenda 2000 price cuts beginning next year. As part of the deal, I secured an important Commission commitment to allow member states to apply more flexible set-aside rules where this brought environmental benefits, as well as their agreement to correct an anomaly which prevented fruit and vegetable producer groups including non-grower members on their Boards. Ministers also registered the importance they attach to milk consumption by school children and undertook to reflect further on how to encourage such consumption in a cost-efficient way.

Date

17 June 1999

Reference

333 c215-6W; 87373

House

House of Commons

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Statement on the outcome of the Agriculture Council held in Brussels on 28th September.

Asked by

David Drew (Labour; Co-operative Party)

Answering body

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

19 October 1998

For answer on

20 October 1998

Answered on

20 October 1998

Mr. Drew: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what was the outcome of the Agriculture Council held in Brussels on 28 September. [55927] Mr. Nick Brown: I represented the United Kingdom at a meeting of the European Union Agriculture Council in Brussels on 28 September. The Council held a first debate on a Commission proposal to reform the EU wine regime. I welcomed many elements in the proposal, in particular measures to redirect EU production away from its traditional reliance on market intervention and towards improved quality and competitiveness. However, I questioned the need to increase the budgetary cost of the wine regime in order to achieve those ends. The Council also debated the impact of the crisis in Russia on EU agricultural markets, and invited the Commission to keep the position under constant scrutiny in view of the importance of the Russian market for EU agricultural exports. More generally, the Commission circulated updated market forecasts for the principal EU agricultural commodities in the period up to 2005, forecasts which will form part of the Council's consideration of proposals to reform the Common Agricultural Policy within the framework of Agenda 2000. In the context of CAP reform, I introduced in the Council a paper prepared jointly with Italian, Swedish and Danish colleagues which proposes a mechanism and a timetable for the removal of milk quotas by 2006. We collectively called for the paper to be examined in detail as part of the on-going Agenda 2000 negotiations. Discussion of the proposal to improve the welfare of laying hens revealed continuing differences amongst member states over the desirability of the measure, and the economic effect of the proposal if implemented. In common with several other member states, I stressed the UK view that the EU should commit itself to an eventual phasing out of the battery cage system. The Council also took stock of the difficult economic conditions prevailing on the pigmeat market and invited the Commission to keep the situation under review. There was also an exchange of views on the incidence of BSE in Portugal in which the Commission reported that its own inspection team was currently examining the measures taken by the Portuguese administration to protect human health and combat the disease in animals.

Date

20 October 1998

Reference

55927; 317 c1083-4W

House

House of Commons

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