Rotor

The Dutch etc need to remember the the ferries run both ways .

DLC

The UK's stated policy is not to check for products of animal origin for personal consumption... I imagine Border Force has bigger fish to fry.

Rotor

I suspect a lot of it is just for show and it will soon die down.

Fredbargate

On a lighter note during the Mad Cow fiasco Spanish customs officers on the Gib border were confiscating that extremely dangerous animal product MARMITE!

Rotor

Well cows are vegans

Fredbargate

Vegans eat VEGIMITE

Red Eric

Why should that have any implications for its availability in Lidl?

rspltd

. It was all set up for the reporter so that he had an anti Brexit story!

Fredbargate

Stilton is an animal product and at the moment there appears to be a problem introducing such into the EU from outside.
Therefore as of Jan 1st such imports have stopped.

However as I queried in my original post if stilton is protected under Denomination of Origin rules and these rules still apply then it can no longer be imported into the EU unless things change.
No problems with the port

Red Eric

Really?

Where is that stated then?

DLC

If there's any country least likely to stick to the rules just at the start and then quietly forget about them, it's probably The Netherlands. Rules are rules. They'll be polite about it though.

EuroTrash

Well it will die down when people learn the rules and stop trying to do things they're not allowed to do, won't it. I imagine having your butties confiscated once, is enough to stop most people making the same mistake twice.

Lynn R

Products like meat and dairy items which it is prohiibited for private individuals to bring into the EU from a third country can still be imported into the EU, provided that the correct documentation is presented to Customs and the required phyto-sanitary inspections have been carried out. Therefore it is still (theoretically at least) possible for British cheeses, etc. to be exported to EU member states, if the cost of meeting the new requirements (new to UK businesses, that is, as they have always applied to other third countries) does not make them prohibitively expensive or they take too long to arrive, thus making it not viable for exporters to continue selling them into the EU.

I didn't realise until yesterday, by the way, that cosmetics and skincare products are also on the "forbidden" list for individuals to bring into the EU from the UK (reports of the cars of UK travellers arriving at Santander, being searched and these products being confiscated. The list of things those of us living in Spain will no longer be able to buy in Gibraltar or bring back from trips to the UK grows ever longer.

Rotor

EU legislators must realise that there are more deliveries coming into the UK from the EU than the other way around , both sides can make it difficult but that will only cause their own people to lose trade , if the UK said we are going to get our fresh fruit and veg from N Africa ( which the UK already does in small amounts ) many EU farms would fold very quickly.

EuroTrash

Are there any restrictions on fruit and veg going into the UK from the EU?
Whereas, this is absolutely shocking and the UK government should be ashamed of itself https://www.bananalink.org.uk/news/p...anana-imports/