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Trade Act 2021

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Amendments 53

Committee stage — Lords 20

NotMovedClause 1EditBillBody

at end insert— No regulations under subsection (1) may be made until the Secretary of State has entered into negotiations with other parties to the GPA with the objective of securing improvements to public health as a consequence of any UK procurement contract to which the GPA applies, and

Moved: Lord Lennie#53991
NotMovedClause 1EditBillBody

at end insert— No regulations under subsection (1) may be made until the Secretary of State has entered into negotiations with other parties to the GPA with the objective of securing greater scope for UK small and medium-sized enterprises in any UK procurement contract to which the GPA applies, and

Moved: Lord LennieSponsor: Baroness Burt of Solihull#53992
NotMovedClause 1EditBillBody

at end insert— No regulations under subsection (1) may be made until the Secretary of State has entered into negotiations with other parties to the GPA with the objective of securing greater environmental exceptions and carbon considerations in any UK procurement contract to which the GPA applies, and

Moved: Lord Lennie#53993
WithdrawnClause 1EditBillBody

at end insert— No regulations under subsection (1) may be made until the Secretary of State has entered into negotiations with other parties to the GPA with the objective of enabling greater labour market interventions and compliance with ILO standards in any UK procurement contract to which the GPA applies, and

Moved: Lord Lennie#53994
NotMovedClause 2EditBillBody

at end insert— Regulations may not be made under subsection (1) unless the international trade agreement is replicated by, or substantially similar to, another trade agreement to which the United Kingdom was previously a party by virtue of its membership of the European Union.”

Moved: Lord Stevenson of BalmacaraSponsor: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering#53998
WithdrawnClause 2EditBillBody

at end insert— Regulations under subsection (1) may make provision for the purpose of implementing an international trade agreement only if the provisions of that international trade agreement do not in any way restrict the ability—

Moved: Lord Bassam of BrightonSponsor: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle#54008
WithdrawnClause 2EditBillBody

at end insert— Regulations under subsection (1) may make provision for the purpose of implementing an international trade agreement only if the provisions of that international trade agreement do not conflict with and are consistent with the United Kingdom’s environmental obligations in international law and as established by but not limited to—

Moved: Lord GrantchesterSponsor: Baroness Hayman, Lord Duncan of Springbank, Lord Oates#54009
WithdrawnClause 2EditBillBody

at end insert— Regulations under subsection (1) may make provision for the purpose of implementing an international trade agreement only if the provisions of that international trade agreement do not conflict with and are consistent with—

Moved: Lord Stevenson of BalmacaraSponsor: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle#54010
NotMovedClause 2EditBillBody

leave out subsections (3) and (4) and insert— Regulations under subsection (1) may make provision for the purpose of implementing a free trade agreement only if the other signatory (or each other signatory) and the European Union had ratified a free trade agreement with each other immediately before exit day.

Moved: Lord Stevenson of BalmacaraSponsor: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering#54011
NotMovedClause 2EditBillBody

leave out subsections (3) and (4) and insert— Paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 applies to any regulations under subsection (1) which make provision for the purpose of implementing a free trade agreement if the other signatory (or each other signatory) and the European Union were signatories to a free trade agreement immediately before exit day.

Moved: Lord Stevenson of BalmacaraSponsor: Lord Purvis of Tweed, Baroness McIntosh of Pickering#54014
NotMovedClause 1AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Report on Agreement on Government Procurement

Moved: Lord Purvis of TweedSponsor: Lord Fox#54036
NotMovedClause 2EditBillBody

at end insert— Regulations under subsection (1) may make provision for the purpose of implementing an international trade agreement only if the appropriate authority has published a report reviewing the impact of any changes brought about by that international trade agreement on dataflows to and from the United Kingdom.”

Moved: Baroness Neville-RolfeSponsor: Lord Clement-Jones, Lord Stevenson of Balmacara#54083
WithdrawnClause 2EditBillBody

at end insert— Regulations under subsection (1) may make provision for the purpose of implementing an international trade agreement only if the appropriate authority has published a report reviewing the impact of any changes brought about by that international trade agreement on the existing law of intellectual property.”

Moved: Lord Clement-JonesSponsor: Baroness Neville-Rolfe, Lord Stevenson of Balmacara#54084
NotMovedClause 1EditBillBody

at end insert— Regulations under subsection (1) may make provision for the purpose of implementing the GPA only if the conditions in subsection (1B) are met in relation to the application of that agreement in any part of the United Kingdom.

Moved: Lord HendySponsor: Lord Hain, Baroness Blower, Baroness Bryan of Partick#54107
NotMovedClause 2EditBillBody

at end insert — Regulations under subsection (1) may make provision for the purpose of implementing an international treaty or private international law convention only if the other signatory (or each other signatory) and the European Union were signatories to an international treaty or private international law convention immediately before exit day.”

Moved: Lord BerkeleySponsor: Baroness Neville-Rolfe, Lord Bradshaw#54134
WithdrawnClause 2EditBillBody

at end insert— an international treaty or private international law convention (including any amendment or protocol thereto) which facilitates trade or the financing of trade.”

Moved: Lord BerkeleySponsor: Baroness Neville-Rolfe, Lord Bradshaw#54135
NotMovedClause 2EditBillBody

at end insert— Regulations under subsection (1) may make provision for the purpose of implementing an international trade agreement only if the conditions in subsection (4B) are met.

Moved: Lord HendySponsor: Lord Hain, Baroness Blower, Baroness Chakrabarti#54136
WithdrawnClause 2EditBillBody

at end insert— Regulations under subsection (1) may make provision for the purpose of implementing an international trade agreement only if the international trade agreement does not contain any form of investor-state dispute settlement mechanism applicable to any part of the United Kingdom in relation to a claim brought by a foreign investor against a United Kingdom public authority except to the extent that—

Moved: Lord HendySponsor: Lord Hain, Baroness Blower, Baroness Chakrabarti#54137
WithdrawnClause 2EditBillBody

at end insert— Regulations may only be made under subsection (1) if—

Moved: Lord GrantchesterSponsor: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle, Lord Rooker#54145
WithdrawnClause 2EditBillBody

after “considers” insert “necessary and”

Moved: Lord Stevenson of BalmacaraSponsor: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering#54199

Report stage — Lords 20

AgreedClause 2AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Parliamentary approval of trade agreements

Moved: Lord Purvis of TweedSponsor: The Lord Bishop of St Albans, Lord Stevenson of Balmacara, Lord Curry of Kirkharle#72385
DisagreedClause 2AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Trade and Agriculture Commission

Moved: Baroness McIntosh of PickeringSponsor: Baroness Henig, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb, Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick#72458
AgreedClause 2AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Free trade agreements: determination on compliance with international obligations and state actions

Moved: Lord Collins of HighburySponsor: Lord Purvis of Tweed, Lord Alton of Liverpool, The Lord Bishop of St Albans#72476
NotMovedClause 2AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Agreements with states accused of committing human rights abuses

Moved: Lord BlencathraSponsor: Lord Alton of Liverpool#72478
AgreedClause 2AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Agreements with states accused of committing genocide

Moved: Lord Alton of LiverpoolSponsor: Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, Baroness Falkner of Margravine#72479
AgreedClause 2AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Ratification of international trade agreements and treaties

Moved: Lord LansleySponsor: Lord Goldsmith#72486
NotMovedClause 2EditBillBody

at end insert “and where the new agreement is in wholly or substantially similar terms to that between the partner country and the EU.”

Moved: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering#72492
WithdrawnClause 2EditBillBody

at end insert “and where the new agreement is in wholly or substantially similar terms to that between the partner country and the EU.”

Moved: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering#72493
WithdrawnClause 2AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Ratification of international trade agreements

Moved: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb#72519
AgreedClause 2AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “International trade agreements: health, care or publicly funded data processing services and IT systems in connection with the provision of health and care

Moved: Baroness ThorntonSponsor: Lord Freyberg, Lord Patel, Lord Fox#72520
NotMovedClause 2AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms

Moved: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara#72521
NotMovedClause 2AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Continuation of North-South trade and prevention of customs arrangements at borders

Moved: Lord HainSponsor: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick, Baroness Suttie, Baroness Altmann#72522
WithdrawnClause 2AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Trade agreement with the EU: compliance with the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland

Moved: Lord HainSponsor: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick, Baroness Suttie, Baroness Altmann#72523
WithdrawnClause 2AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Prohibition of tied aid in trade and procurement

Moved: Lord Purvis of Tweed#72524
DisagreedClause 2AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Investor-state dispute settlement

Moved: Baroness KramerSponsor: Lord Purvis of Tweed#72526
WithdrawnClause 2AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Conditions for trade agreements: climate change obligations

Moved: Lord OatesSponsor: Lord Purvis of Tweed, Baroness Boycott, Lord Hain#72527
WithdrawnClause 2AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Mobility framework with the European Union

Moved: Lord FoxSponsor: Lord Purvis of Tweed, Baroness Bull, The Earl of Clancarty#72528
NotMovedClause 2EditBillBody

at end insert— for the adoption and implementation of an international trade agreement which is an international treaty or private law convention or amendment or protocol thereto.”

Moved: Lord Berkeley#72531
NotMovedClause 2EditBillBody

at end insert “, or in the case of an international treaty or private law convention, other state parties and the European Union were contracting states before exit day.”

Moved: Lord Berkeley#72532
WithdrawnClause 2EditBillBody

at end insert— an international treaty or private law convention (including any amendment or protocol thereto) that facilitates trade or the financing thereof.”

Moved: Lord Berkeley#72533

3rd reading — Lords 13

AgreedSchedule 3EditBillBody

leave out “(iv)” and insert “(v)”

Moved: Lord Grimstone of Boscobel#72726
AgreedSchedule 3EditBillBody

leave out “(iii)” and insert “(iv)”

Moved: Lord Grimstone of Boscobel#72727
AgreedSchedule 3EditBillBody

leave out “(ii)” and insert “(iii)”

Moved: Lord Grimstone of Boscobel#72728
AgreedSchedule 3EditBillBody

after “(4)(b)” insert “(as amended by the European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020)”

Moved: Lord Grimstone of Boscobel#72729
AgreedSchedule 3EditBillBody

leave out “(iv)” and insert “(v)”

Moved: Lord Grimstone of Boscobel#72730
AgreedSchedule 3EditBillBody

leave out “(iii)” and insert “(iv)”

Moved: Lord Grimstone of Boscobel#72731
AgreedSchedule 3EditBillBody

leave out “(ii)” and insert “(iii)”

Moved: Lord Grimstone of Boscobel#72732
AgreedSchedule 3EditBillBody

after “(8A)(b)” insert “(as amended by the European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020)”

Moved: Lord Grimstone of Boscobel#72733
AgreedSchedule 3EditBillBody

leave out “(iv)” and insert “(v)”

Moved: Lord Grimstone of Boscobel#72734
AgreedSchedule 3EditBillBody

leave out “(iii)” and insert “(iv)”

Moved: Lord Grimstone of Boscobel#72735
AgreedSchedule 3EditBillBody

leave out “(ii)” and insert “(iii)”

Moved: Lord Grimstone of Boscobel#72736
AgreedSchedule 3EditBillBody

after “(5)(b)” insert “(as amended by the European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020)”

Moved: Lord Grimstone of Boscobel#72737
AgreedClause 8EditBillBody

leave out “in advance of such agreements being” and insert “are”

Moved: Lord Grantchester#72782