The Popular Parliamentary Group asks to adapt customs services to the new commercial relationship with the United Kingdom

Published 2021년 2월 16일

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Spanish senators from the Popular party have called on the government to increase resources and adjust the schedule for the customs service to handle the increased activity related to sanitary and phytosanitary certification following the UK's exit from the EU. They anticipate a surge in customs controls, potentially by over 50 percent, due to the new situation, and emphasize the impact on agriculture, especially in regions like Murcia that rely heavily on exports to the UK. The senators are urgently requesting the government to establish adequate customs and control systems to prevent negative effects on horticultural exports and the regional economy.

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The initiative of the popular, presented by the senators for Murcia, Juan María Vázquez, Francisco Bernabé and Violante Tomás, as well as by the GPP Agriculture spokesman, Jorge Martínez Antolín, calls on the Executive to provide the customs service with human resources necessary and an adequate schedule, to assume the increase in activity, especially related to sanitary and phytosanitary certification, consistent with the new export controls. As explained by Martínez Antolín "the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union represents a significant increase in extra-community exports and imports, with the consequent customs, quality and phytosanitary procedures that these types of operations require." From the Popular Group they have recalled that "in customs, whether maritime or inland, participate, in addition to other types of workers, the Civil Guard, the Customs Department of the Tax Agency, the Plant Health Service of the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and ...

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