Alexander Kinnear, parliamentary officer for the Ulster Farmers' Union, said it was the UK Government which had delivered the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework and it now had to deliver a mechanism to deal with divergence.
The House of Lords European Affairs sub-committee on the Windsor Framework is investigating regulatory divergence the development of differences in the legal standards separately imposed by the EU and the UK for the manufacturing, import, export and marketing of goods and services.
He gave the example of the use of glyphosate on farms for the desiccation of crops. Mr Kinnear said the EU was in the process of approving glyphosate use for a further 10 years, but not for the purpose of pre-harvest desiccation.
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