New import controls postponed

The remaining import controls on EU goods will no longer be introduced this year the government has announced. This is in a bid to help ease the cost of living pressures.

Instead traders will continue to move their goods from the EU to Great Britain as they do now.

The government will now review how to implement these remaining controls in an improved way that harnesses innovative new technologies with further details to be published in the autumn ahead of the new controls regime due to come into force at the end of 2023.  

Specifically the following controls which were intended to take effect from July 2022 will not be introduced:

• further sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) checks on EU imports currently at destination to be moved to border control post (BCP);
• safety and security declarations on EU imports;
• further health certification and SPS checks for EU imports; and...