§ Dame Peggy Fennerasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will seek simplification of European Economic Community forms for export of food.
§ Mr. GummerThe information required of exporters is kept to the minimum necessary to meet common agricultural policy and Customs and Excise requirements. It is the Government's objective to simplify the paperwork as much as possible. To that end the United Kingdom has taken part in discussions with the European Commission on the introduction, on 1 January 1988, of a revised method of documentation for imports and exports —generally called the single administrative document —and will continue to work for the greatest possible alignment of remaining documents with the SAD.