Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Sugar Divisions: Registered Files, Sugar and Industrial Crops (SOF Series)

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Details of MAF 699
Reference: MAF 699
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Sugar Divisions: Registered Files, Sugar and Industrial Crops (SOF Series)
Description:

This file series covers Genetically-Modified related issues including Genetically Modified Herbicide Tolerant (GMHT) crops, seed purity standards, the National List regulations, and environmental issues relating to the cultivation/production of flax.
Date: 1981-2001
Related material:

Records relating to research including papers of the Sugar Beet Research and Education Committee MAF 33

Records relating to the sugar subsidy and to the organisation of the Sugar Commission and British Sugar Corporation MAF 34

Files on international trade in sugar MAF 40

Registered files on sugar beet MAF 268
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: SOF file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2001-

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Chemicals and GM Policy Division, 2001-2007

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, New Crops and Sugar Division, 1998-2001

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Sugar, Oils and Fats Division, 1982-1990

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Sugar, Tobacco, Oils and Fats Division, 1991-1991

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Sugar, Tobacco, Oilseeds and Proteins Division, 1992-1998
Physical description: 49 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2015 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Accumulation dates: 1982 to 2012
Accruals: File series closed in 2012 - after transfer, series will not accrue. New file series GMO opened in 2003 to reflect the work of GM Policy Unit.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Sugar Division was originally formed on the amalgamation of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) and the Ministry of Food in 1955. MAFF acquired functions from Ministry of Food relating to the sugar industry and became responsible for beet and cane sugar (and also artificial sweeteners and isoglucose).

The Division responsible in 1982 when series opened was the Sugar, Oils and Fats Division (SOF) covering domestics and international policy and the operation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for (a) sugar and isoglucose (b) oilseeds and fast, peas, beans and dried food. From 1995, the Division also took responsibility for alternative crops.

In 1998 divisional responsibility for the file series was passed to New Crops and Sugar (NCS) Division. The remit was policy work on: EU sugar regime and on domestic sugar industry matters; the agricultural implications of the introduction of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) into UK agriculture, including general MAFF co-ordination of GM work; support for energy crops; encouragement of other agri-industrial materials; and CAP regimes for flax/hemp and cotton.

NCS then changed to GM and Industrial Crops in 2001 and merged with Chemicals and Biotechnology Division (ex-Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions) in August 2001 to become Chemicals and GM Policy Division.

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