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The introduction of controls for EU agri-food imports at British borders will be postponed, the government has announced.

Farm groups frustrated by delay to EU food import checks >More in © Adobe Stock Farm organisations have criticised the government’s decision to delay post-Brexit checks on EU imports for a further six months. While the EU imposed stringent checks on British exports from 1 January 2021, the UK fast-tracked imports to avoid food shortages. The government planned to introduce documentary checks on animal products for human consumption fr...

Europe Editor The Northern Ireland Protocol is threatening to become a chronic condition, and flare ups are now occurring with worrying regularity. This week Northern Secretary Brandon Lewis announced to the House of Commons that Britain would decide itself how the Protocol should be applied. Comparisons with Septembers Internal Market Bill, which Lewis had admitted would breach international law, were swift. "This amounts to a violation of the relevant substantive provisions of the Protocol on...

The latest Brexit flare up is over checks on goods to NI, which remains in the EU's single market.

UK moves to reassure EC on NI border control posts Updated / Monday, 1 Mar 2021 12:53 Europe Editor The European Commission has been reassured by the UK that checks and controls on GB imports at temporary Border Control Posts (BCPs) at ports in Northern Ireland ports will continue, and will not be affected by the Northern Ireland agriculture ministers decision to cease work on the permanent facilities, according to a spokesperson. On Friday Agriculture Minister Gordon Lyons said he was halti...

Government Operational Update – Two months post Brexit transition Exporters urged to prepare for new UK import controls Businesses encouraged to identify & communicate with key supply chain players Trade volumes on ROI/GB routes remain behind 2020 figures 150% increase in frequency of direct sailings to Europe Govt and agencies continue to engage with businesses & individuals to address post Brexit challenges Government Departments and Agencies are encouraging export businesses to prepare ...

DUP minister orders halt to construction of inspection facilities for post-Brexit checks Gordon Lyons ordered end to charges levied at ports on traders bringing goods into North Fri, Feb 26, 2021, 18:57 Checks on agri-food shipments arriving into Northern Ireland from Great Britain have been in place at the North’s ports since the end of the Brexit transition period on January 1st. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire   The North’s Minister for Agriculture has ordered his officials to halt th...

The facility will allow the inspection of goods from the Republic of Ireland and the EU following Brexit.

Last week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged that the UK "will do everything" it needs to do "to ensure that there is no barrier down the Irish Sea" even if...

A FRESH storm is brewing over EU fishing policy with the Irish government facing calls to renationalise the countrys waters and give its trawlermen greater access to their own fishing grounds.