Member

On Amendment 13, I say to the noble Lord, Lord Russell, that I am very familiar with the British Chambers of Commerce. I was once, in a different century, its deputy director-general, and I have no doubt that what its members say is an accurate reflection of its interests. However, it is not necessarily the basis on which one writes laws. We should be very clear that the place we want to arrive at is where we enter into mutual recognition agreements with as many like-minded countries as possible. Those would be mutual recognition of conformity assessments, because the relevant EU law we are talking about is, in essence, about the principles for conformity assessment. We should do that with the European Union, America, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and so on. As a consequence, we would enter into what would be regarded as positive a third-country trading relationship with the European Union as possible.