§ Mr. MorleyTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when his Department last received representation from the French authority about continued export of contaminated feed to that country. [35669]
§ Mrs. Browning[holding answer 4 July 1996]: The UK told the Commission and other member states of the steps it was taking to prohibit the use of ruminant MBM in ruminant feed in 1988, but it was for other member states to introduce similar domestic restrictions on the use of a material in free circulation and for the Commission to regulate intra-Community trade in this material. At that time MBM could legitimately be exported to other member states as under single market rules it was in free circulation for use in pig and poultry feed.