Checks and controls on GB food products entering Northern Ireland have been some of the biggest practical difficulties.<\/p>\n
Under the Windsor Framework, UK public health and safety standards apply for all retail food and drink in the UK internal market.<\/p>\n
That means GB traders who are sending food for sale in Northern Ireland face reduced checks and paperwork compared to the protocol.<\/p>\n
The flipside of this is the introduction of the “Not for EU” labels on GB food products, to give a level of assurance to the EU that products will not wrongly enter its single market.<\/p>\n
Mr Machin said the final phase of labelling would mean more than 1,000 Marks & Spencer products destined for Northern Ireland would need to have a “Not For EU” label.<\/p>\n
Another 400 would need to go through additional checks in the so-called red lane at NI ports.<\/p>\n
“Quite frankly it’s bureaucratic madness, confusing for customers, and completely unnecessary,” Mr Machin said.<\/p>\n
In May the government announced an “agreement to agree” which will ultimately see all of the UK realigning with EU agrifood rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Checks and controls on GB food products entering Northern Ireland have been some of the biggest practical difficulties.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-218912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114755996627652599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218912","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=218912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}