{"id":380686,"date":"2025-08-28T17:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/380686\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T17:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:11:12","slug":"more-award-winning-british-cheese-to-be-served-across-europe-thanks-to-eu-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/380686\/","title":{"rendered":"More award-winning British cheese to be served across Europe thanks to EU agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Businesses exporting food and drink to the EU to benefit from major SPS Agreement adding \u00a35.1bn to the UK economy every year\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>As part of the Plan for Change, the agreement will boost agrifood trade with the EU, the UK\u2019s largest trading partner\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Major British firm, Neal\u2019s Yard Dairy, welcomes agreement during visit from Exports Minister\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Small food and drink exporters across the UK are set for a major boost in sales thanks to substantial package agreed with the EU.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This includes measures to slash costs and burdensome red tape on agriproducts such as dairy, fish, eggs and red meat, so UK businesses can spend more time and money selling their world-renowned products abroad.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As part of the Government\u2019s Plan for Change, the package will increase access to the UK\u2019s largest market, to grow exports, create jobs and make our supply chains more resilient, helping to reduce pressure on prices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2024 alone, the food and drink sector in Britain employed 3.8 million people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Neal\u2019s Yard Dairy &#8211; an artisanal cheese-maturer, retailer and wholesaler &#8211; is one of the thousands of small businesses set to benefit the most from the deal. Based in London, the dairy runs a thriving exports business, selling their award-winning cheeses to customers and retailers across Europe and the world.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Minister for Small Businesses and Exports, Gareth Thomas, visited their Bermondsey branch to meet with Director David Lockwood and his employees to discuss the Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreement and the ways it will benefit the business and others in the sector.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Neal\u2019s Yard Dairy in Bermondsey, Gareth Thomas, Minister for Small Businesses and Exports, said:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The UK\u2019s food and drink sector has huge exporting potential and Neal\u2019s Yard Dairy demonstrates that alongside the right government action, small firms can expand internationally into new and existing markets.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Through our Trade Strategy, three landmark trade deals and our Small Business Strategy this Government\u2019s Plan for Change is breaking down barriers for exporters to increase trade, create jobs, and grow the economy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As part of the substantial package agreed at the first UK-EU Summit in May, the Government has agreed to a new and expansive SPS agreement with the EU.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This will benefit a wide range of producers and retailers with over 1,500 UK products currently affected by SPS measures.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For artisan producers like Neal\u2019s Yard, who often deal in small batches and can\u2019t afford delays due to the perishable nature of cheese, this agreement will be especially beneficial.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Routine SPS border checks will be eliminated so fresh produce can hit supermarket shelves more quickly, with less paperwork and fewer costs.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Great British goods are subject to 100 percent documentary checks and up to 30 percent physical checks. The deal will see these removed entirely.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once agreed, it is expected to add up to \u00a35.1 billion a year to the economy and increase the volume of UK exports of major agricultural commodities to the EU by 16 percent.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>David Lockwood, Director at Neil\u2019s Yard Dairy, said:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Neal\u2019s Yard Dairy looks forward to the UK and EU implementing the UK-EU \u2018reset\u2019 agreement as quickly as possible to allow us to focus our core business: selecting, maturing and selling British cheese both within the UK and overseas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The additional requirements for export to the EU post-Brexit have cost our business in many ways. A major impediment is the requirement that our EU bound shipments have health certificates for cheese signed off by official veterinarians; this has doubled the time between customers ordering and receiving goods, a very effective cost inflater and sales killer. The removal of this non-tariff trade barrier is greatly anticipated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Beyond the SPS agreement, the Minister and David Lockwood also discussed the Government\u2019s export support offer, which is now easily accessible in one place through the new Business Growth Service, launched in the Plan for Small Businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As part of the Plan,\u00a0the Government has also expanded UK Export Finance\u2019s capacity by \u00a320 billion to \u00a380 billion to support more smaller firms win business and increase sales overseas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both the Department for Business and Trade and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs have supported Neal\u2019s Yard Dairy to increase exports through retail introductions, webinars and trade missions.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Businesses exporting food and drink to the EU to benefit from major SPS Agreement adding \u00a35.1bn to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-380686","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\/115107507993325482","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380686","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=380686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}