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Dr. Tony Wright
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what legal advice he has received on whether it would be possible to prevent the importation and sale of pig meat produced in ways that do not conform to United Kingdom animal welfare standards. [78933]
Mr. Morley
My legal advice is quite clear. Neither the Treaty of Rome nor the rules of the World Trade Organisation allow the UK to ban the import or sale of pigmeat that has not been produced to our own welfare standards.