SPS Certification Report
UK Pet Food alongside the SPS Certification Working Group have today (10 June 2021) published a report which recommends a three-pronged approach to resolving the severe restrictions to exports that have arisen post Brexit:1. Improve current systems to remove archaic bureaucracy, reducing time, error and costs;
2. Review requirements for inspection and certification;
3. Negotiate a form of mutual veterinary agreement with the EU which would ease problems trading food and feed between Great Britain (GB) and the EU and GB to NI, and from EU to GB when import controls take effect.
About the SPS Certification Working Group
The Working Group is made up of food and feed trade associations, and veterinary and environmental health professional organisations, working together to minimise trade friction in EHC/SPS products between GB and the EU/NI by identifying issues and proposing solutions to Government and its Agencies. The total value to the UK economy of the members of the Working Group is well in excess of £100bn per annum.
Click through to read the press release and the full report.