Articles involving: Borders
09 May, 2025
The fatal flaw with “Intensified Official Controls” at the EU border
Borders, EU, Exports,
Defra has just published some timely guidance on Intensified Official Controls at the EU border and what to do if a consignment of animal products gets…
24 Apr, 2025
New Foot and Mouth risk to the UK assessment published
Borders, Farming, Imports,
A rapid risk assessment conducted earlier in April 2025 has concluded that the risk of foot and mouth disease entering Great Britain over the next three…
07 Mar, 2025
New foot and mouth scare in Hungary just announced
Borders, Defra, Food Safety,
Breaking news in today that classic symptoms of foot and mouth disease were detected in a herd of 1400 cattle on a farm in Hungary. It's…
28 Feb, 2025
UK needs better border control and better traceability to halt meat crime
Borders, Defra, Food Safety,
In the news recently have been several stories that, together, serve to illustrate separate but related issues emerging in the meat supply chain. First we hear…
14 Feb, 2025
UK government needs to heed the foot and mouth wake-up call
Borders, Farming, Food Security, Imports,
Our latest press release highlights the confusion in the media surrounding weaknesses in the UK’s biosecurity at borders. We make the distinction between legal commercial shipments…
14 Feb, 2025
Illegal meat seizures and foot and mouth scare should be a wake-up call
Borders, Farming, Food Safety, Imports,
The recent foot and mouth disease case in Germany has highlighted weaknesses in the UK’s biosecurity at borders, but we must make the distinction between legal…
27 Nov, 2024
Important new policy brief outlines how UK and EU can reset their trading relationship
Borders, Brexit, Exports, Imports,
Former European Commission senior negotiator Ignacio Garcia-Bercero has today published a paper outlining a possible trade policy framework for the EU/UK reset. Of particular interest to…
08 Oct, 2024
Another delay to post-Brexit border controls
Borders, Brexit,
Since the end of the transition period a series of staged border controls on exports and imports has been imposed, the last of which is the…
06 Sep, 2024
Logistics UK estimate new EU Entry System could cost up to £1,100 per truck
Borders,
New research by Logistics UK suggests that delays caused by the new European Entry System (EES) could seriously impact trade passing through Dover. With 3.35 million…
04 Sep, 2024
BMPA Meat Industry Manifesto published
Borders, Exports, Food Security,
The British Meat Processors Association is launching its first Meat Industry Manifesto. The document focuses on a worrying long-term trend of falling livestock numbers which has resulted…
04 Sep, 2024
Welsh border control posts play catch up
Borders,
Several months after the implementation of new import controls on high risk goods coming into the UK from the EU, work has finally started on new…
23 Aug, 2024
Peter Hardwick BBC interview explains the issues with new food import charges
Borders,
Following our press release on the new and (for some importers) unexpectedly large port charges, BMPA’s Trade Policy Advisor was interviewed by BBC Farming Today. It’s a good…
16 Aug, 2024
New import charges on food start to bite
Borders, Imports,
The first invoices for the new Common User Charge for importing meat and plant products through Dover have started to land. While most businesses should be…
16 Aug, 2024
New import charges on food start to bite
Borders,
The first invoices for the new Common User Charge for importing meat and plant products through Dover have started to land. While most businesses should be…
09 Aug, 2024
Latest developments to the new Border Target Operating Model
Borders, Imports,
This week saw two developments in the ongoing implementation of the new BTOM. From 10pm on 5 August invoices for the Common User Charge (CUC) started to be…