{"id":151823,"date":"2025-06-02T10:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T10:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151823\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T10:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T10:08:09","slug":"uk-puts-new-brexit-checks-on-hold-while-it-negotiates-agri-food-deal-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151823\/","title":{"rendered":"UK puts new Brexit checks on hold while it negotiates agri-food deal \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The checks on fresh produce were yet to be introduced and have been repeatedly delayed amid concerns about disruption they pose to supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>Industry figures welcomed the move and said it was \u201ccommon-sense,\u201d pointing to earlier calculations that the checks would have led to \u00a3200 million in higher costs and resulting higher prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Government\u2019s EU deal will make food cheaper, slash bureaucracy and remove cumbersome border controls for businesses,\u201d Biosecurity Minister Helene Hayman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA strengthened, forward-looking partnership with the European Union will deliver for working people as part of our Plan for Change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SPS checks on food imports including meat, fish and dairy were introduced from April 30 2024 by the Conservative government after years of delay \u2014 but checks on fresh produce are yet to go live.<\/p>\n<p>A planned October 2024 date was put back by the Labour government to July this year, but this has now effectively been delayed indefinitely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The checks on fresh produce were yet to be introduced and have been repeatedly delayed amid concerns about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[768,802,7478,2000,299,5187,64771,475,806,7911,11666,6648,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-151823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-borders","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-dairy","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-fruit-and-vegetables","15":"tag-imports","16":"tag-industry","17":"tag-meat","18":"tag-produce","19":"tag-supply-chains","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114613223710020547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}