HC Deb 07 May 1980 vol 984 c108W
Mr. Stainton

asked the Secretary of State for Trade if the United Kingdom representative on the working group of the European Economic Community Council of Ministers will be directed to insist on the state of the art defence, despite the rejection of this in the October 1979 European Economic Community draft directive on liability for product defects.

Mrs. Sally Oppenheim

I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given to my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon (Mr. Proctor) on 29 April.—[Vol. 983, c.413.]