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UK and EU finalise draft deal to remove Brexit checks on food and animal products
November 3, 2026 at 09:56 AM
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TGThe Guardian
Deal finalised to remove Brexit checks on food and animal products
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BNBBC News
UK and EU agree draft deal to scrap Brexit red tape over food exports
(opens the publisher’s site)The UK and the EU have completed a draft agreement ending post-Brexit sanitary and phytosanitary checks on food and animal product imports and exports.
- The 200-page draft text has been circulated to EU ambassadors for a meeting on Wednesday ahead of the UK-EU summit on 20 November.
- The deal is expected to take effect in the first quarter of 2028 after the change of UK prime minister caused a six-month delay.
- UK exports of sausages, burgers, shellfish and seed potatoes will resume, and ordinary trade in cheeses, wines and leather goods will return.
- The National Farmers' Union said British food exports to the EU had collapsed by a third since Brexit.