The UK Government has published the draft Target Operating Model (TOM), outlining how it intends to deliver the 2025 Border Strategy. This will affect the import of sanitary and phytosanitary goods (SPS) from the EU (mainly the Republic of Ireland) through Welsh ports.
SPS goods include:
- Plants
- Products of animal origin
- Live animals
- High risk food and feed not of animal origin
They will be subject to extra checks at points-of-entry to safeguard biosecurity and food safety.
Checks will take place at border control posts, which are being developed to serve the ports of:
- Holyhead in north Wales
- Pembroke Dock and Fishguard in southwest Wales
Biosecurity is a devolved matter, but the Welsh Government has worked with the other governments to develop a model for the whole of Great Britain.
The Target Operating Model will determine how this new regime of border controls will work.
There is an opportunity for everyone with an interest, including all stakeholders involved in the trade of SPS goods, to provide feedback ahead of the final publication.
Find out more and share your views, please select the following link Written Statement: Update on Border Controls (5 April 2023) | GOV.WALES