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UK Trade with EU: Import Controls

Commons · Question 52322 · Tabled 14 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 27 May 2025

Question

Asked by Daisy Cooper

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the UK/EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary agreement to improve the ability of businesses to trade in EU countries.

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 27 May 2025

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 agreed the parameters for a Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agre...