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Veterinary Medicine: Export Health Certificates

Lords · Question HL3261 · Tabled 8 Sep 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 17 Sep 2026

Question

Asked by Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the cost to UK exporters of any disruption to certification capacity during the period before dynamic alignment with the EU-UK sanitary and phytosanitary agreement takes effect.

Answer

Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock, 17 Sep 2026

The UK is currently negotiating an SPS Agreement with the EU. These negotiations are at an advanced stage and expected to remove the requirement for Export Health Certificates (EHC). The Agreement will have implications for Official Veterinarians undertak...