Robb Ferguson - Trade with the EU 2022 Cheat Sheet

Robb Ferguson - Trade with the EU 2022 Cheat Sheet

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Trade with the EU 2022: a cheat sheet

Post-Brexit trade with the EU is still in a state of flux as UK regulations continue to develop. Spoiler alert • Last minute halt to new import controls for agrifoods from the EU affecting animals, animal products, and plants and plant products. • Revised UK import controls regime to be published in autumn 2022. • Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP) and

New timetable: in the latest news, no further import controls on EU goods will be introduced in 2022. This affects controls due to be phased in from July to November 2022. Controls introduced in January 2021, on the highest risk imports of animals, animal products, plants and plant products, however, remain in place. So, too, do customs controls already introduced. Changes now suspended: • requirement for sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) checks on EU imports currently at destination to be moved to Border Control Posts (BCPs) • requirement for safety and security declarations, sometimes called entry summary declarations, for EU imports • requirement for further health certification and SPS checks for EU imports • requirement for SPS goods to be presented at a BCP • prohibitions and restrictions on import of chilled meats from the EU. This also covers changes scheduled to take place later in the year for imports from the EU, such as dairy and other products of animal origin. Autumn 2022 instead sees publication of a new strategy, the Target Operating Model, setting out a new regime of border import controls. It ‘will target the end of 2023 as the revised introduction date for our controls regime’, with a new approach applying equally to goods from the EU and goods from the rest of the world. The aim is to create a seamless new ‘digital’ border, where technologies and real-time >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4

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