Britain calls on EU to ease seafood import restrictions
Christian Fernsby ▼ | February 24, 2021
Britain says its domestic economy has been damaged by EU import bans on certain seafood, just weeks after its departure from the bloc was finalized.Article continues below
Topics: BRITAIN
"There is no scientific or technical justification for the European Commission to ban the import of live bivalve molluscs from Class B waters," a spokeswoman for the UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs told dpa.
"This is already impacting business and damaging markets on both sides of the channel," she said.
According to an EU classification, Class A waters are the cleanest, followed by Class B. Molluscs from Class A waters can be imported into the EU without first being cleaned, according to regulations. Most British waters, however, are Class B.
The EU prohibits the import of certain shellfish - such as Category B - from Britain, as well as from other non-member countries.
The rationale is that Britain's food standards and monitoring could have diverged after it left the EU, and that these seafood products are particularly sensitive from a health perspective.
Britain is urgently calling for a solution to this problem, the spokeswoman said, and has asked the commission for a meeting.
Britain finally left the EU's single market at the beginning of the year.
The two sides agreed in principle to duty-free trade in their laboriously negotiated pact.
Nevertheless, a number of new controls and formalities are necessary at the borders, which places a massive burden on many traders. ■ What to read next
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