UK-EU deal long overdue, says garden centre owner

John Campbell and Andrew McNeir

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Robin Mercer has had difficulty getting roses

BBC A man with gray hair with a purpose shirt, is to before the shelves of several plants in a gardening center. It is inside the greenhouse covers. — Robin Mercer has had difficulty getting roses

Robin Mercer, from Hillmount Garden Center in County Down, said the agreement “exposed a lot” since the current arrangements had increased costs.

“In the past before Brexit we were bringing a lot of tram roses every week, now we have to get different places and there is no the same selection,” he said.

“There are many suppliers in England that is the work with us now because it is too much will have, too much paperwork.”

An organism of the horticulture industry says that lifting commercial barriers should “boost our range of plants and products and how fast we can get them”

Getty images the rose 'Eustacia Vye' Flores in summer -Rosa 'Eustacia Vye' Flores in summer. There are three and they are a delicate pink. — An organism of the horticulture industry says that lifting commercial barriers should “boost our range of plants and products and how fast we can get them”

The Horticultural Trade Association (HTA) said the agreement would help industry throughout the United Kingdom, which has seen trade with interrupted European suppliers.

Neil Grant, president of the HTA Retail Committee, said: “The garden centers and their clients have seen that prices increase and the choice are a direct result of the commercial barriers that we now have with European suppliers.

“We know many retailers who report that inspection delays have led to damaged and not followable actions, as well as personnel problems about always changing delivery times, all of which add costs to Garden centers in the United Kingdom.

“Raising commercial barriers should boost our range of plants and products and how fast we can get them.”

The agreement must also mean that GB retailers resume online sales of plants and seeds to Northern Ireland.

Customs statements

However, the changes will not be implemented at any time and for the companies and consumers of or will not eliminate all the barriers that increased in 2021.

Monday’s agreement is described as a “political statement” that must now become a binding legal text.

That will have been negotiating for months and it is unlikely to move to implementation before next year.

On the average, some requirements that the last government signed in 2023 Windsor Framework Deal will continue to implement.

For example, a new phase of the “NO for the EU” labeling in the GB food products that will be sold in or continue in July.

That despite the fact that the labeling will finally be eliminated as results of the new agreement.

Most of the commercial goods that are sold from GB A or also will continue to require customs statements, even the products that are covered by Monday’s agreement.

Stuart Anderson, from the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce, said it was “greatly positive news at first sight”

A man with spooky brown hair is on a sofa. Heer wears a navy suit and a white shirt. — Stuart Anderson, from the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce, said it was “greatly positive news at first sight”

Stuart Anderson, Director of Public Affairs of the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce, said he was still concerned about the customs burden for movement between GB and Ni.

“Customs problems have the leg at stake since the original agreement was introduced,” he said.

“There are bone of a movement about that thought of the Windsor frame, some of them also create more challenges with the introduction of May package arrangements.”

However, he said that the new agreement was “enormously positive news” at first glance.

He added that the companies in Northern Ireland had “brought a significant amount of the load to take us today.”

What is in the new agreement of the United Kingdom/EU?

If a complete agricultural food agreement is followed, potentially at the end of this year, that will reduce the need for controls and controls in the products that are sent from GB to Northern Ireland

Getty images a farmer who uses a red and black check shirt, yellow pants and a gray vest, which is shown from the neck down while carrying three large green vegetable trays in the area or a vehicle boat. There are broccoli, green beans and red peppers. — If a complete agricultural food agreement is followed, potentially at the end of this year, that will reduce the need for controls and controls in the products that are sent from GB to Northern Ireland

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced the broad agreement that affects food, fishing and security after organizing EU leaders at a summit in London.

It includes a new SPS agreement, which represents sanitary and phytosanitary and refers to rules on animals and food.

The Government said this would reduce the bureaucrita tape for companies, simplify exports and imports of food, and help reduce maris of trucks on borders.

The agreement also includes a new security and defense association between the United Kingdom and the EU, and the new agreements for passport controls.

British tourists will soon be able to use more Egates in Europe, which the government said that “the dreaded tails” would end in border control.

Sir Keir said the agreement is “good for jobs, good for invoices and good for our borders.”

However, the critics accused the Labor Government of betraying the Brexit voters, since the United Kingdom will have to follow the rules of the EU agri -food without having something to say about how these rules are made.

There are also groups on a 12 -year fishing agreement that grants EU access to the waters of the United Kingdom, which is included as part of the general agreement.

The leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, said that the United Kingdom was “becoming a Brussels rules policyholder once again.”

But the Labor Government said it was time to “restore” relations with the EU, which is the largest market in the United Kingdom.

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said that the United Kingdom’s agricultural food exports fell in fifth place, and the new agreement reduces friction and commercial costs.