This instrument will amend retained European Union (“EU”) and domestic legislation in accordance with the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended by the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020). Technical amendments will be made to the ‘grace periods’ or transitional provisions concerning import requirements that apply to certain marketing standards sectors (i.e. hops and hop products, wine, fruit and vegetables) exported by the EU to Great Britain (“GB”), as well as to those that apply to hops and fruit and vegetables exported by third countries into GB. In addition, technical amendments will also be made to the grace periods applying to import requirements for organic products exported by the EU, European Economic Area states and Switzerland to GB.
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