UK will not align with EU agri-food regulations

LONDON, Jul 8 (Reuters) – Britain will not adopt European Union legislation on agri-food to resolve post-Brexit trade difficulties with Northern Ireland, Brexit Minister David Frost said on Thursday, urging Brussels to be more flexible to end the so-called “sausage war”.

Earlier this week, the EU urged London to consider a Swiss-style veterinary agreement with Brussels on agri-food to end the post-Brexit “sausage war” over certain goods moving between Britain and Ireland. North, British territory.

“Obviously, aligning with the EU agri-food legislation, or adopting it, is not going to be a solution,” Frost told the Policy Exchange think tank.

“Sometimes we are accused of being ideological for not accepting it, but in reality the ideological thing is to say that the only solution to these problems is for us to adopt EU legislation, and that is simply impossible,” he said, adding that the government would take to parliament in the coming weeks its strategy to end the conflict.

(Reporting by Elizabeth Piper; edited by William James; translated by Flora Gómez in the Gdansk newsroom)

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