Declaration by the United Kingdom on Meat Products: 30 June 2021
Details of the agreement reached by the UK and the EU on extending the chilled meats grace period.
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The Government has been consistently clear that there should be no barriers on the movement of meat products from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. In order to avoid any disruption to those movements, the Government has been engaged in intensive discussions with the EU regarding arrangements from 1 July, when the grace period agreed at the Withdrawal Agreement Joint Committee in December would otherwise have expired.
Further to those discussions, the UK and EU have agreed to extend the grace period until 30 September. In line with that agreement, the United Kingdom has today set out a unilateral declaration, of which the EU has taken note, relating to the movement of meat products from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. This sets out the conditions under which meat products otherwise classed as prohibited and restricted goods will move from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, including being accompanied by official certificates and labelled for sale only within the United Kingdom.