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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 from 1 April 2021. It aimed to match Brussels by imposing third-country status on EU goods by 1 July 2...

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 September's 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 Ireland/Northern Ireland and the good faith obligation under the Withdrawal Agreement," the Europe...

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 minister's decision to cease work on the permanent facilities, according to a spokesperson. On Friday Agriculture Minister Gordon Lyons said he was halting construction work on permanent posts and recruitment of staff because of "practical difficulti...