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Demystifying sanitary and phytosanitary requirements when selling to the EU
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Want to sell your food products to countries across Europe, but finding it difficult to navigate the guidance and requirements? We are here to help demystify the process and make the requirements much more digestible for you!
What you’ll learn
- Understand what the sanitary and phytosanitary checks and requirements are when selling food and animal products overseas
- Learn about the recent updates to relevant guidance
- Discover the support available from the Department for Business and Trade to help guide you through understanding the checks and requirements
Description
Europe is the UK’s largest export market, and food products are now subject to EU guidance under the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
If your company is currently selling or looking to sell food products to EU countries, and you need to demystify what this guidance means for your export activity, then we are here to help!
This session will cover the main food safety and animal health measures (sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS)) when selling your products to the EU, what checks you may be subject to and may need to prepare for, along with any recent changes to this guidance that you may need to be aware of.
Speakers
Andy Baker
Customs & International Trade Adviser, Strong and Heard
Andy has over 19 years’ experience in freight forwarding and logistics. Covering Airfreight Imports , Sea freight and Road freight logistics. Having worked for various freight forwarders within this period he was responsible for all aspects of logistics and supply chains , customs entries and compliance. Andy’s expertise covers import and export entries, inventory link ports, NCTS and ETSF warehousing and various customs entry software along with customs audits and compliance. Andy has vast experience in customs declarations and processes, NCTS , customs consultancy and audit work.
Lucille Roche
Customs & International Trade Adviser, Strong and Heard
Lucille has over 40 years’ experience in international trade as an in-house international trade advisor and has also been called on to assist regulatory bodies (including HMRC & DEFRA) in evaluating and helping to develop new systems (such as the online trade tariff, the advanced tariff ruling system, IPAFFS etc) and has sat on working groups to facilitate the introduction of new regulations such as IUU (illegal unreported and unregulated fishing).
Her expertise covers tariff classification, evaluating origin and establishing if preference is applicable , Importation of products of animal origin, general imports and exports and regulatory compliance, post clearance audit checks. Lucille has over 20 years within the foods industry as well as another 20 in the tobacco industry.