Import Controls: UK Trade with EU
(asked on 22nd May 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is their timeline for implementing the sanitary and phytosanitary agreement with the EU.
Answered by
Baroness Hayman of Ullock
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Prime Minister welcomed President of the European Commission Ursula Von Der Leyen and President of the EU Council António Costa to London for a UK-EU Summit on 19 May.
At that Summit we have agreed the parameters for a Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreement making agrifood trade with our biggest market cheaper and easier, cutting costs and red tape for British producers and retailers.
We will start talks straight away and want to remove barriers as soon as possible.