{"id":358014,"date":"2025-08-19T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358014\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:50:10","slug":"uk-delays-new-eu-animal-import-checks-to-ease-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358014\/","title":{"rendered":"UK delays new EU animal import checks to ease trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Border rules paused as SPS deal details still pending<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n

\"calendar 20 August 2025<\/p>\n

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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, Reuters reported<\/a>, citing\u00a0the UK government.<\/p>\n

Extra border checks on some animal and plant goods imported from Ireland will also be suspended.<\/p>\n

May’s sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) deal<\/a>, part of a wider reset<\/a> 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

However, the deal is yet to be implemented as details are still being negotiated.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, British traders must continue to comply with the terms of the UK\u2019s Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) that protect the country’s biosecurity, including existing checks.<\/p>\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

A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs could not give a timeline for implementation of the SPS deal.<\/p>\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

Britain was much slower implementing its post-Brexit border arrangements, and after repeated delays and confusion it started to set new rules<\/a> in phases from January last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Border rules paused as SPS deal details still pending 20 August 2025 2 minute read Britain is suspending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-358014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115058116226612539","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358014","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=358014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}