May 9th, 2022
3 mins
On Thursday 28 April, the government announced that Entry Summary (ENS) Declarations will not be required for EU goods entering Britain after 1 July. Under the previous Border Operating Model Plan, these declarations would have been required from this date.
The sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) checks that were due to be introduced at the start of July for several animal-origin and plant-based goods have also been put on hold.
Instead, the government has said that full import checks won’t come into effect until the end of 2023 and that it is going to use the time before then to move towards digitising customs and SPS checks.
On Thursday 12 May, the Institute of Export and International Trade (IOE&IT) will be running a free, short webinar on what the government’s new approach means for British businesses.
You can register for free here.
It will cover:
- A recap of what rules and checks have already been introduced
- Changes to requirements that were due to come into effect on 1 July
- What traders now need to do to comply with post-Brexit rules
- What digitised checks could look like for traders
You can submit questions in advance of the webinar to [email protected].
