http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/21/section/45Agriculture Act 2020An Act to authorise expenditure for certain agricultural and other purposes; to make provision about direct payments following the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union and about payments in response to exceptional market conditions affecting agricultural markets; to confer power to modify retained direct EU legislation relating to agricultural and rural development payments and public market intervention and private storage aid; to make provision about reports on food security; to make provision about the acquisition and use of information connected with food supply chains; to confer powers to make regulations about the imposition of obligations on business purchasers of agricultural products, marketing standards, organic products and the classification of carcasses; to make provision for reports relating to free trade agreements; to make provision for the recognition of associations of agricultural producers which may benefit from certain exemptions from competition law; to make provision about fertilisers; to make provision about the identification and traceability of animals; to make provision about red meat levy in Great Britain; to make provision about agricultural tenancies; to confer power to make regulations about securing compliance with the WTO Agreement on Agriculture; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-09-19Expert Participation2024-09-01 PART 6 WTO Agreement on AgricultureRegulations under section 43: classification of domestic support451Regulations under section 43 may make the following kinds of provision.2The regulations may make provision about the classification of domestic support for the purposes of—athe Agreement on Agriculture, orbany limits set under section 44.3The provision which may be made by virtue of subsection (2) includes provision setting out—aa process for the appropriate authorities to decide how different types of domestic support should be classified (including reviewing and amending their existing classification);ba process for the resolution of disputes between the appropriate authorities regarding the classification of domestic support, which may include provision making the Secretary of State the final arbiter on any decision on classification.S. 45 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes and otherwise at 11.1.2021, see s. 57(1)(b)(c)(6)
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