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SPICe briefings
Date published:
4 September 2020
Trade Agreements and their Potential Impact on Environmental Protection - 2.2 Free Trade Agreements (FTAs)
This rate is capped (“bound”) under the law of the WTO, and must apply to all goods irrespective of their origins, with the exceptions of goods coming from countries with which Japan has a preferential arrangement (an FTA, or a scheme to promote development cooperation).
For countries that do not trade under preferential terms with Japan (as the EU and the ...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
4 September 2020
Trade Agreements and their Potential Impact on Environmental Protection - a. Rules on preparation and production methods (PPMs):
Report From The Commission To The European Parliament and the Council on the development, validation and legal acceptance of methods alternative to animal testing in the field of cosmetics (2018).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
23 July 2020
Issue 11: EU-UK Future Relationship Negotiations - The UK Global Tariff scheme
The only goods that are spared the Global Tariff will be those circulating within a Free Trade Area and goods from poorer countries enjoying special treatment for development reasons. Therefore, EU goods will be subject to this tariff scheme unless a free trade agreement is achieved by the end of the transition period.
Committee reports
Date published:
30 June 2020
Supply and demand for medicines - Minor Ailment Scheme and Pharmacy First
We are interested in how the Pharmacy First initiative will be evaluated and monitored and sought the view of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport on this issue in correspondenceviiiLetter to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport on the Supply and Demand for Medicines, 23 March 2020.
We support this development although we are unclear whether pos...
Committee reports
Date published:
9 June 2020
Stage 1 Report on the Social Security Administration and Tribunal Membership (Scotland) Bill - Tribunal membership
It explained:
“efficient delivery is at the heart of the new system, but there is also the opportunity to develop decision-making and resolution under a distinctive approach to social security under Scots law.”3The Law Society of Scotland. (2020).
Committee reports
Date published:
21 May 2020
Protected Trust Deeds - Creditors
The Committee recommends that a staged fee payment structure is developed whereby a proportion of each payment goes to the creditors.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 April 2020
Issue 5: EU-UK future relationship negotiations - Role of the European Parliament
We meet with Michel Barnier and his team regularly via videoconference to exchange views on recent developments such as the content of the EU draft legal agreement for the future EU-UK partnership or the draft text proposed by the UK.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
13 February 2020
Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill - International comparisons on legal unions
International comparisons on legal unions
Other countries and jurisdictions have developed legal unions for couples as an alternative to marriage.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
13 February 2020
Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill - Supreme Court Judgment
R (on the application of Steinfeld and Keidan) (Appellants) v Secretary of State for the International Development (in substitution for the Home Secretary and the Education Secretary) (Respondent).
Committee reports
Date published:
5 December 2019
Female Genital Mutilation (Protection and Guidance) (Scotland) Bill - Stage 1 Report - Background to the Bill
The plan covers the period of 2016-2020. It was developed to form a Scottish response to FGM, and to the Serious Crime Act 2015 which was passed by the UK Parliament.
