Defra Fresh Produce Fair Dealing Proposals – Second Version for Feedback by 26/09/2025
Defra have now issued the second consultation document relating to fair dealings in the fresh produce sector. The aim of the proposals are to improve fairness ...
News & Views
Latest news and views across the fresh produce industry.
HMRC Request for Input: Common Transit Convention (CTC) – Questionnaire
FPC have been asked to distribute the questionnaire below to FPC Members as the HMRC Transit Policy team is currently seeking to deepen its understanding of how...
Prevent financial fraud against your farm business - Government Advice
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) are aware that some farmers have received emails, texts and...
NI PPP authorisations affected by upcoming EU MRL amendments
Check that your PPP authorisations in NI containing the active substances propamocarb and ethephon comply with the relevant EU maximum residue levels (MRLs). Th...
The Fruit and Vegetable Aid Scheme closes to English Producer Organisations on 31 December 2025.
The Fruit and Vegetable Aid Scheme will close to English Producer Organisations on 31 December 2025. As an EU legacy scheme, the RPA will no longer support the ...
New Export Health Certificate for High Risk Food and Feed Not of Animal Origin to the EU - 12th August 2025
The Commission has updated its model certificate for HRFNAO. Regulation (EU) 2019/1793 has been updated and this contains amendments to the model certificate as...
Using ICS2 for goods movements by road/rail from Great Britain to Northern Ireland – key update
As you may be aware, the system for submitting safety and security declarations, known as Entry Summary Declarations (ENS), for the movement of goods from Great...
Removal of prohibition on exports of Cornus alba, Cornus sanguinea, Sorbus aucuparia, Populus alba, Populus nigra, Populus tremula and Taxus baccata from the UK to the EU legislation published
The legislation to remove the prohibition on exports of Cornus alba, Cornus sanguinea, Sorbus aucuparia, Populus alba, Populus nigra, Populus tremula and Taxus ...
Priorities for a UK-EU SPS agreement - Call for Evidence
On 19 May 2025, leaders from the UK and EU met in London for the first formal bilateral meeting since the UK’s departure. In that meeting, both parties agreed t...
Shiga toxin-producing E Coli (STEC) data 2024 published
The UKHSA have published data related to Shiga toxin E. Coli for 2024. Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), also known as Vero cytotoxin-producing Esc...
Failure to Prevent Fraud - New Corporate Offence from 1st September 2025
A new corporate offence 'failure to prevent fraud', will come into force on 1 September 2025 under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act. This marks...
Farmer Opinion Tracker for England
The Farmer Opinion Tracker for England is now published with data from first run in September 2019 to date. The tracker provides a snapshot of views and opinio...