We can clarify this. The noble Viscount, Lord Younger, had a meeting to discuss this and we have asked for more detail. I hope to be able to come back with more detail on this for noble Lords, certainly before Report.
Moving to Amendment 63A, I would like to add my compliments to those of the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, to my noble friend for speaking to this well-crafted amendment so clearly and for raising the important issue of copycat packaging. This was debated at the Committee stage of the Intellectual Property Bill in June last year and the noble Viscount, Lord Younger of Leckie, said that the Government would undertake a review into this issue.
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A call for evidence was launched in April this year. We received over 30 detailed responses. I was talking to the Bill team about this yesterday. The responses were incredibly detailed with a wide and often polarised range of views on the issues identified. The call for evidence was followed by a round-table discussion with stakeholders in July, which provided us with more information. Officials are continuing to review the information received. We had hoped to publish our final report with analysis by September, but this has not proved possible. It is important that the views of interested parties are properly considered and that we take the necessary time to do this. Furthermore, it had originally been envisaged that the review would be published before Ministers had taken any view on the matter. It has now been decided that it will be published alongside Ministers’ decisions on the issues. We anticipate that the outcome of the review will be published in early 2015, so while I recognise my noble friend’s desire to make progress on the issue, I am sure he would agree that it would not be appropriate to legislate before we have concluded the review and have determined whether, and precisely what, action is needed.
I am sure that his amendment has been prompted in part by the opportunity provided by the Bill. However, I hope I can offer some reassurance that, were we to go down this route, we believe that we could do so via secondary legislation under Section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972. My noble friend should be reassured that I have passed his amendment to the officials conducting the review and that Ministers have met today once again with representatives from the British Brands Group to discuss these matters, as the noble Viscount, Lord Younger of Leckie, did in the past. I would ask my noble friend, on behalf of the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, to withdraw the amendment.