LONDON (Reuters) -Britain is suspending the previously planned introduction of extra border checks on live animal imports from the European Union to ease trade ahead of the implementation of a deal agreed in May to reduce friction, the UK government said on Monday.<\/p>\n
\n Extra border checks on some animal and plant goods imported from Ireland will also be suspended.<\/p>\n
\n May’s sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) deal, part of a wider reset in UK-EU relations, will reduce paperwork and remove routine border checks on plant and animal products moving between the UK and EU, while maintaining high food standards.<\/p>\n
\n However, the deal is yet to be implemented as details are still being negotiated.<\/p>\n
\n In the meantime, British traders must continue to comply with the terms of the UK’s Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) that protect the country’s biosecurity, including existing checks.<\/p>\n
\n The suspension of the introduction of additional border checks follows the announcement in June that checks on EU fruit and vegetable imports had been scrapped.<\/p>\n
\n A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs could not give a timeline for implementation of the SPS deal.<\/p>\n
\n When Britain left the EU’s single market in 2021, the EU immediately enforced its rules, leading to port delays and prompting some British exporters to stop selling to the bloc.<\/p>\n
\n Britain was much slower implementing its post-Brexit border arrangements, and after repeated delays and confusion it started to set new rules in phases from January last year.<\/p>\n
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