§ Mr. Campbell-Savoursasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on Her Majesty's Government's policy towards the adoption by the United Kingdom of clause 9 of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation's proposed international code on the use and distribution of pesticides.
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§ Mr. Trippier[pursuant to his reply, 20 February 1985, c. 654]: The Government welcome the intention of FAO that article 9 of the proposed code of conduct on the distribution and use of pesticides should conform to the United Nations environment programme's provisional notification scheme for banned and severely restricted chemicals. Arrangements are being made by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment to provide for the notifications of control actions and of first exports which the scheme requires.