Although the UK helped develop EU standards for animal welfare, agricultural and fisheries products and food safety for many years, in the Trade negotiation between the UK and the EU, the UK negotiators rejected the option to continue to do so. The EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement  has no such provision (except in respect of Northern Ireland) and consequently exports of live animals and food from the UK to the EU are subject to the EU's long-standing controls on import of such products from countries outside the European Economic Area and Switzerland.   Animal welfare In March 2021 the Ulster Society for the Prevention Cruelty to Animals (USPCA) lobby group advocated for the extension of the CVA to the UK, because border control delays are stressful to the animals, and the Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP) is the lever to improvements since the UK has left the province within the EU single market. The Union of European Veterinary Practitioners noticed first that the suggestion of the Eurogroup for animals to this effect, and second that in February 2021 EU Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič that the "EU would be prepared to look at a bilateral veterinary agreement with the British government" over this issue.
Although the UK helped develop EU standards for animal welfare, agricultural and fisheries products and food safety for many years, in the Trade negotiation between the UK and the EU, the UK negotiators rejected the option to continue to do so. The EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (EU-UK TCA) has no such provision (except in respect of Northern Ireland) and consequently exports of live animals and food from the UK to the EU are subject to the EU's long-standing controls on import of such products from countries outside the European Economic Area and Switzerland. In June 2021 report, "a broad coalition of food industry groups, vets, and environmental health professionals" called for a new UK-EU veterinary agreement to avoid a "catastrophic drop" in food exports to the EU. Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol The Northern Ireland Protocol (as it is more usually called) is a section of the EU-UK TCA that makes provision for Northern Ireland to have full access to both the EU Single Market and the UK Internal Market. However, goods (notably animals and animal products) being shipped from Great Britain to Northern Ireland are subject to the same non-tariff barriers to trade as for GB shipments to the EU. This Irish Sea border is controversial among Northern Ireland's Unionists who see it as a stepping stone to Irish reunification against their will. In February 2021, the Financial Times reported that the DUP's Edwin Poots at the time Northern Ireland's agriculture minister had written to George Eustice, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to describe the maximum alignment approach as a 'key ask' in reducing the protocol’s impact. 'This could be achieved, for example, by dynamic alignment with relevant parts of the EU acquis and the UK joining the common veterinary area (as in the Swiss/EU arrangement),' he wrote in the letter copied to Scottish and Welsh governments. Animal welfare In March 2021 the Ulster Society for the Prevention Cruelty to Animals (USPCA) lobby group advocated for the extension of the CVA to the UK, because border control delays are stressful to the animals, and the Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP) is the lever to improvements since the UK has left the province within the EU single market. The Union of European Veterinary Practitioners noticed first that the suggestion of the 'Eurogroup for Animals' to this effect, and second that in February 2021 European Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič that the "EU would be prepared to look at a bilateral veterinary agreement with the British government" over this issue.
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In June 2021 report, "a broad coalition of food industry groups, vets, and environmental health professionals" called for a new UK-EU veterinary agreement to avoid a "catastrophic drop" in food exports to the EU.
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Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol The Northern Ireland Protocol (as it is more usually called) is a section of the EU-UK TCA that makes provision for Northern Ireland to have full access to both the EU Single Market and the UK Internal Market. However, goods (notably animals and animal products) being shipped from Great Britain to Northern Ireland are subject to the same non-tariff barriers to trade as for GB shipments to the EU. This Irish Sea border is controversial among Northern Ireland's Unionists who see it as a stepping stone to Irish reunification against their will. In February 2021, the Financial Times reported that the DUP's Edwin Poots at the time Northern Ireland's agriculture minister had written to George Eustice, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to describe the maximum alignment approach as a 'key ask' in reducing the protocol’s impact. 'This could be achieved, for example, by dynamic alignment with relevant parts of the EU acquis and the UK joining the common veterinary area (as in the Swiss/EU arrangement),' he wrote in the letter copied to Scottish and Welsh governments.
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'Eurogroup for Animals'
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