Trade bodies say ongoing confusion about when checks will come in is ‘incredibly challenging’

Businesses have described Britain’s Brexit border plans as being in “complete disarray” after it emerged the introduction of some checks on EU imports will be delayed.

Post-Brexit border rules, due to come into force on 30 April, will require many meat, dairy and plant products from the EU to be physically checked at government border control posts (BCPs).

But trade bodies have said fresh confusion about when the checks would begin were “incredibly challenging” for business planning, while others said serious questions remained about the government’s readiness for the regime.

  • Flying SquidMEnglish
    48•8 months ago

    Yeah, you can’t trust that European meat. Who knows what sort of low quality standards they have in Germany!

    • KnedlikyEnglish
      24•8 months ago

      Ehm, while I appreciate the sentiment (as a properly deputized representative for all Germans), it may be not for nothing that the saying about not wanting to know how the sausage is made comes from Germany. Meat and sausages are veeery cheap here and while labor exploitation is certainly a big ingredient, I often wonder what the others are.

      • Flying SquidMEnglish
        9•8 months ago

        Then maybe it should be inspected at every border? It seems like France doesn’t feel the need to physically check every meat truck coming from Germany.

        • @Miaou@jlai.luEnglish
          3•8 months ago

          Allowing German food to cross the border was the first step towards assisted euthanasia France made.

      • @mindlight@lemm.eeEnglish
        7•8 months ago

        That thing about sausage isn’t just Germany.

        No one wants to know what’s in the sausages…

    • @CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7•8 months ago

      I know right!? They might make their sausages out of pig, pig I tell you!. Not like our propper sausages made of 50% breadcrumbs and 50% recycled grease.

      • RubberDuckEnglish
        3•8 months ago

        Jup, but this stuff happens everywhere unfortunately. It is the perverse stimulus of capitalism. I have to admit that the wiki article does not even cover the full scale, as in that time we had a similar issue here in the Netherlands with a slaughterhouse that was mixing meats.

        In these cases it was caught and people where punished. It was also not a health risk but an economic crime.

    • @baru@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4•8 months ago

      Yeah, you can’t trust that European meat.

      Last time I checked this there are different standards for stuff that’s only meant for export from the EU vs stuff that’s for EU consumption. It’ll still likely be fine, but cannot assume it’ll be the same standard.