{"id":196038,"date":"2025-06-19T02:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T02:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/196038\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T02:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T02:59:10","slug":"britains-got-an-eu-deal-but-the-brexit-red-tape-keeps-coming-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/196038\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s got an EU deal \u2014 but the Brexit red tape keeps coming \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThen, if the deal is \u2018papered up\u2019 in law by that stage, this bureaucratic labeling won\u2019t be required at all.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But a figure close to discussions about the future of the scheme \u2014 granted anonymity to speak freely \u2014 called for realistic expectations of when an SPS deal was likely to happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, the U.K. needs to align itself to EU standards, where it has diverged,\u201d they said. For example, the U.K. has authorized emergency use of certain pesticides that are banned in the EU.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"699\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/11985304-1024x699.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6777384\"  \/>Some suppliers may decide to drop out of the Northern Ireland market altogether. | Mark Marlow\/EPA<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, on the EU side, the Commission will not have their mandate to get into technical discussions from the European Council until at least mid-Autumn and the European Parliament will want some sort of input into the technical process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEither way, those things aren\u2019t going to happen overnight, and while relationships from the political agreement are still buoyant, the technical discussion will be much more intense and fervent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Through-the-looking-glass policy\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Despite industry\u2019s concerns, retailers are generally \u201cwell prepared \u2014 especially when it comes to own-brand products,\u201d the same senior retail figure quoted earlier said. But they added that there are still a \u201cconsiderable number of suppliers, including sizable brands who are not ready, and who don\u2019t want to play ball.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThen, if the deal is \u2018papered up\u2019 in law by that stage, this bureaucratic labeling won\u2019t be required&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[768,802,748,2437,8514,7478,2000,299,5187,1699,1214,64771,4884,806,678,807,79663,14790,2441,7911,809,1144,54160,6859,46,2443,363,6648,1201,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-196038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-borders","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-companies","12":"tag-customs","13":"tag-dairy","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-european","17":"tag-european-union","18":"tag-exports","19":"tag-fruit-and-vegetables","20":"tag-great-britain","21":"tag-industry","22":"tag-ireland","23":"tag-keir-starmer","24":"tag-labeling","25":"tag-labels","26":"tag-markets","27":"tag-meat","28":"tag-negotiations","29":"tag-northern-ireland","30":"tag-pesticides","31":"tag-plant-health","32":"tag-policy","33":"tag-regulation","34":"tag-retail","35":"tag-supply-chains","36":"tag-trade","37":"tag-uk","38":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114707796362142829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196038","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=196038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}