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Bill Introduced 12 Sep 2018 Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs ↗ Parliament

Agriculture Bill

A Bill To authorise new expenditure for certain agricultural and other purposes; to make provision about direct payments during an agricultural transition period following the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union; to make provision about the acquisition and use of information connected with food supply chains; to confer power to respond to exceptional market conditions affecting agricultural markets; to confer power to modify retained direct EU legislation relating to agricultural and rural development payments and public market intervention and private storage aid; to make provision about marketing standards and the classification of carcasses; to make provision for the recognition of associations of agricultural producers which may benefit from certain exemptions from competition law; to confer power to make regulations about contracts for the purchase of agricultural products from agricultural producers and securing compliance with the WTO Agreement on Agriculture; and for connected purposes.

Legislative progress

Commons 12 Sep 2018
1st reading
Commons 10 Oct 2018
2nd reading
Commons 10 Oct 2018
Money resolution
Commons 23 Oct 2018
Committee stage
Commons
Report stage

Chamber debates

Committee debates