Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 49414

Fruit: Import Controls

Tabled: 30 April 2025
Answered: 21 May 2025
Named Day

Question

Helen Whately

ConservativeFaversham and Mid Kent

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to (a) consult and (b) inform businesses importing fruit from non-EU countries of changes to (i) inspection regimes and (ii) risk categorisation; and what discu

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Changes to plant health import controls are communicated in-line with relevant international obligations, including those under the WTO-SPS agreement and International Plant Protection Convention. This includes submitting a notification to the World Trade...

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