Agriculture Act 2020 (c. 21)

PART 3 U.K. Transparency and fairness in the agri-food supply chain

CHAPTER 1 E+W Collection and sharing of data

25 Requirement must specify purposes for which information may be processed E+W

(1) This section applies to a requirement imposed under section 23(1) or (2).

(2) The requirement must specify the purposes for which the information may be processed.

(3) Each purpose specified must be in, or covered by, the list of purposes in subsection (4).

(4) The list of purposes is as follows—

(a) helping persons in agri-food supply chains to—

(i) increase productivity,

(ii) manage risks (including, but not limited to, financial risks, non-financial trading risks, climatic risks, and risks of or from disease or pollution), or

(iii) manage market volatility;

(b) promoting transparency or fairness in agri-food supply chains;

(c) promoting the health, welfare or traceability of creatures of a kind kept for the production of food, drink, fibres or leathers;

(d) promoting the health or quality of plants, fungi or soil;

(e) minimising adverse environmental effects of activities connected with agri-food supply chains;

(f) minimising waste arising from activities connected with agri-food supply chains;

(g) monitoring, or analysing, markets connected with agri-food supply chains.

(5) For the meaning of “agri-food supply chain” (and “person in” such a chain) see section 24.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 25 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes and otherwise at 11.1.2021, see s. 57(1)(b)(c)(6)