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Welcome to our latest FSAI Brexit Ezine

To continue trading with Great Britain from 1 January 2021, your food business will need to comply with the requirements for importing food or placing it on the Irish market. You need to know what this means and make sure you are ready. FSAI has lots of Brexit resources available to help you get ready.

The Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland will apply from 1 January 2021, ensuring that many of the changes arising in our trade with Great Britain will not apply to trade with Northern Ireland.

Brexit Bites - What Food Businesses Need to Know

Join us at our Brexit Bite 'What food businesses need to know' on Wednesday 4 November at 10am.

In this short Brexit Bite, Deirdre O’Brien from the Environmental Health Service of the Health Service Executive will give a brief overview of the requirements for importing foods of non-animal origin and food contact materials into Ireland from Great Britain from 1 January 2021.

Deirdre will give a summary of the import controls including:

Products that are subject to increased controls
Requirements for these products e.g. documents, notification to the border control post, checks
How you can minimise delays

The webinar will close with answers to common questions that are being asked by food businesses including:

Food labels - what changes need to be made to food labels from Great Britain and when?
What about labels on products manufactured before the end of the transition period (31 Dec 2020)?
What does ‘placing on the market’ mean?
What are the requirements for importing food supplements?
What about exporting to Great Britain?

There will be an opportunity to ask questions at the end of the presentation. This free event will be held online and will last 45 minutes.

To register please click here

What about food supplements?

The import requirements for food supplements are dependent on the ingredients in the food supplement. Food supplements can be foods of non-animal origin, foods of animal origin, or composite products (a food that contains both processed products of animal origin and products of plant origin).

For food supplements import requirements, the FSAI's eLearning module Brexit – Food Import Requirements includes sections on the import requirements for foods of non-animal origin, foods of animal origin and composite products.

The requirements for importing food supplements will be covered in our next Brexit Bite on Wednesday 4th November Brexit Bite: What Food Businesses Need to Know.

FSAI Brexit Resources

Brexit information can be found at www.fsai.ie/Brexit

FSAI free eLearning programme Brexit – Food Import Requirements

Brexit advice line brexit@fsai.ie

Brexit Readiness Action Plan

On 9 September, the Government launched its Brexit Readiness Action Plan. The Action Plan supports and promotes the necessary preparations for the substantial and enduring changes that will arise at the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020. Regardless of the outcome of the EU-UK negotiations, a number of outcomes are already clear. The most significant of which is that, in two months, the UK will be outside the EU’s Single Market and Customs Union. Time is short and action is required now. To read the plan or to get further information, visit www.gov.ie/Brexit.

We will continue to keep you updated and provide information and advice on the steps you need to take to be prepared for 1 January 2021. For up-to-date information on Brexit, visit our website at www.fsai.ie/Brexit or email Brexit@fsai.ie if you have any specific questions.

Look out for future FSAI Brexit Ezines.

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