Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 November 2020 to Question 109198, what plans the Government has to bring forward legislative proposals for the requisite (a) easements and (b) exemptions for wine imports; what quantities of imports those provisions are planned to apply to; and what the Government’s timeframe is for bringing forward those proposals.

The legislation which postpones, to 1^st July 2021, the introduction of wine certification for imports of EU wine to Great Britain, is being laid on 29^th December 2020 and will come into effect at the end of the transition period. This is in addition to the previously legislated for easement allowing imports of wine to Great Britain from non-EU countries to continue using the EU VI-1 form.

A number of exemptions to these certification requirements were included in the legislation setting out the certification requirements, adopted under the EU Withdrawal Act. These exemptions included wine shipments that do not exceed one hundred litres, small shipments of wine sent from one private individual to another and wine imported for trade fairs.