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EU Environment Sub-Committee

Lords Select Committee

The Sub-Committee examines EU policy on agriculture, energy, climate change, the environment, food, fisheries, biosecurity and public health. It also considers the environmental aspects of the UK-EU level playing field.

This Committee is a Sub-Committee of the European Union Select Committee

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For information about the work of committees before 2020 please go to inquiries before 2020 and publications before 2020. For information on former committees before 2020, please visit former committees.

4 current inquiries

Inquiries allow committees to consider oral and written evidence on a particular topic. They usually result in the publication of a report.

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Access to UK fisheries post-Brexit
Opened 16 January 2020
Climate change and COP26
Opened 27 February 2020
Agrifood and the Northern Ireland Protocol
Opened 27 May 2020
Environment and the Level Playing Field
Opened 27 May 2020

Non-inquiry work

European scrutiny
European scrutiny focuses on the implications for the UK of proposed EU laws and policies.

Latest news

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Environment needs not be stumbling block in UK–EU agreement
The EU Environment Sub-Committee summarises the findings of the Level Playing Field inquiry
27 July 2020
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Government rejects EU COVID-19 vaccines scheme
The EU Environment Sub-Committee writes to the Government regarding decision
23 July 2020
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Concerns raised for the future of chemical regulation by Lords Committee
The EU Environment Sub-Committee writes to Defra Secretary of State concerning the regulation of chemicals
13 July 2020

Upcoming events

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Formal meeting (private meeting)
9 September 2020 - 9:15am to 11am

Latest publications

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Letter from the chair of the European Union Environment Sub-Committee to the Secretary of State in the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, dated 27 July 2020
Inquiry Environment and the Level Playing Field
Committees EU Environment Sub-Committee
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Correspondence
Letter from the chair of the European Union Committee to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, dated 22 July 2020
Work COVID-19 vaccines (European scrutiny)
Committees EU Environment Sub-Committee
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Correspondence
Letter from the chair of the European Union Committee to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department of Health and Social Care, dated 16 July 2020
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Correspondence

Contact us

  • Email: ayresl@parliament.uk
  • Phone: 020 7219 6798 (committee staff) | 020 7219 0697 (Press Officer)
  • Address: EU Environment Sub-Committee, House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW