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Brexit: elected officials plead for a "European force" to control imported food products

2021-01-21T10:53:20.215Z


The mayors of French ports say they are worried about "downward competition between European ports". The mayors of French ports in the Channel and the North Sea on Thursday called for the creation of a " European health coordination force " to control food products imported from the United Kingdom, worried about " downward competition between European ports ”. Read also: Brexit: a logistical storm in British ports “ We cannot have any doubts about the quality of our food. The implementation of


The mayors of French ports in the Channel and the North Sea on Thursday called for the creation of a "

European health coordination force

" to control food products imported from the United Kingdom, worried about "

downward competition between European ports

”.

Read also: Brexit: a logistical storm in British ports

We cannot have any doubts about the quality of our food.

The implementation of the trade agreement with the United Kingdom

(since Brexit, editor's note)

cannot suffer any difference in treatment between European ports

”, underline in a column published in Le Monde Edouard Philippe, mayor (ex-LR ) of Le Havre, Natacha Bouchart, mayor (LR) of Calais, Patrice Vergriete, mayor (various left) of Dunkirk, Frederic Cuvillier, mayor (PS) of Boulogne-Sur-Mer and Pascal Canfin, president of the environment and health commission at European Parliament.

To attract more goods, and therefore income, some ports could be tempted to reduce the quality and frequency of their checks

"Sanitary and phytosanitary, they say, convinced that"

the risk of downward competition between European ports exists

.

"

The dumping strategy that the British government seems to want to promote strengthens us in the conviction that new initiatives are necessary

", add the signatories, pointing in particular to "

the recent declarations of the British authorities in favor of the development of GMOs

" and "

the authorization of neonicotinoid pesticides in Great Britain while they are prohibited for use by our farmers in Europe

. ”

"

Products intended for Northern Ireland, and therefore for the British market with its divergent health and environmental standards, could end up on the European market by illegally passing through Ireland

", they also worry.

Read also: Post-Brexit agreement: French fishermen relieved but vigilant

While they welcome the fact that each country of the European Union has "

strengthened its customs capacities

", they wish "

that this reinforcement be accompanied by coordination beyond French borders

."

"

We therefore ask the French government, beyond our political colors, to propose to the European Commission and its European partners, the creation of a European health coordination force between the actors most concerned: cities and port authorities of the Channel coast and the North Sea, the national and European authorities

”, they write.

Source: lefigaro

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