In addition to Massachusetts, 15 other states, including California, Arizona and New Jersey, have implemented similar bans that the Eats Act would undo.

The new Environmental Land Management scheme, expected to be rolled out in late 2024, will introduce new ways of working together with farmers to deliver better environmental outcomes. Most of the EU cross compliance rules and standards are already part of UK domestic law (the regulatory baseline) and will continue to apply to farmers after delinking in 2024, so farmers will continue to be required to comply with the rules.A PBR holder can also request details of the source of suspected infringing material through an information notice, to establish whether harvested material (for example, pot plants) has been obtained through unauthorised propagation.

Mr Modi is adroit in changing the narrative in his favour, so his political communication on the rollback in the days ahead will be keenly heard. Most states currently require pre-entry inspection and disease control measures for farm animals entering the state. They argue that farmers can sell outside the APMC even now, and most in fact do, albeit after paying the required fees or cess.

For more information on the property implications of ECTEA 2022 which introduces a new register of overseas entities (ROE) and the impact for those dealing with overseas entities in real estate transactions, see Practice note, Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022: property implications. The farm laws had caused a lot of anger in the north Indian states that are the heartland of Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP). The commitment was based on advice from the Committee on Climate Change, a group of independent climate change experts. On Friday, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait said the farmers would still not disband their protest camps and rallies until the act of repealing the laws had been carried out in parliament. Besides giving them access to modern tech and better inputs, it also seeks to boost farmer income by reducing the cost of marketing.