In this week’s cross-border trading corner, we bring you the most recent Trader Support Service bulletin and the latest Brexit and Beyond newsletter from the Northern Ireland Assembly EU Affairs team. HMRC has also sent an update for businesses on the UK UK-EU SPS (Sanitary and Phytosanitary) agreement and HMRC has also sent comms on CERTEX validation and errors, including information for traders.
Update for businesses on the UK UK-EU SPS agreement
Readers may have already be aware that on 19 May 2025, the UK government and the European Union (EU) agreed to pursue a SPS agreement. This, together with the Windsor Framework, aims to make it easier, cheaper, and more predictable for goods to move not just between the UK and the EU, but also within the UK itself, including smoother movements from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.
This agreement covers the trade, production, and movement of plants, animals, and their products, food and feed safety, broader nutrition-related areas such as food supplements, fortified foods, food for specific groups, nutrition and health claims, and nutrition labelling, wider agrifood rules related to food labelling, organics, key agri-food marketing standards, and compositional standards, in addition to the regulation of pesticides and biocides.
More information has been published by Defra here: UK-EU SPS Agreement - Information for Businesses - GOV.UK This includes who these changes will apply to and when, the benefit of the changes, what these will mean for businesses, what businesses can do now to start getting ready, and the launch of a Call for Information to understand the impact of the agreement and what further support businesses need in order to prepare.
The Government will continue to update businesses as this progresses.
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