The Association of Independent Meat Suppliers (AIMS) has published a report calling for the export health certification process to be digitalised as firms continue to struggle with new Brexit regulations.
The report, entitled ‘Digitalisation of the Export Health Certification Process’, makes a series of suggestions on how the process of exporting fresh meat products can be improved and the report has been sent to Ministers for consideration.
“Frankly, the system is a laborious and clumsy process which is prone to error."
Dr Jason Aldiss, AIMS’ head of external relations, commented: “The current system of export certification is heavily bureaucratic, expensive and unnecessarily labour-intensive whilst also being reliant on a stretched and limited professional resource. Never has there been more of a need for the EHC process to be digitalised.
“Frankly, the system is a laborious and clumsy process which is prone to error. We are in a digital age with a system who’s ‘use by date’ expired some time ago.”
Norman Bagley, head of policy at AIMS, added: “We are already hearing on the news of all sorts of fraudulent activity surrounding a whole host of new EU exit related paperwork and the current manual EHC system simply leaves our industry open to this sort of criminal activity. It is time to act quickly and secure the paperwork associated with export supply chains.”
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