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The Trade and Agriculture Commission (TAC) has published it recommendations for the UK government’s post-Brexit trade policy this month...

Brexit Update New paperwork and systems for exporters continue to lead to delays...

In a rare case of a party successfully challenging an arbitration award under s67 Arbitration Act 1996, the English High Court considered the question of whether a GAFTA arbitration clause could be implied into an agreement between parties by market practice and custom in  Black Sea Commodities Ltd v Lemarc Agromond PTE Ltd [2021] EWHC 287 (Comm)...

A recent ASA adjudication concerned ITV’s scheduling of a McDonald’s advert for their ‘Double Quarter-Pounder with Cheese’ burger...

1. Trade & Cooperation Agreement Update The paperwork struggles continue to be widely reported by UK media...

On 8 January 2021, in response to an application made by the NFU, the Government published a statement on its decision to issue emergency authorisation to permit the use of a product containing a neonicotinoid (which has been banned by the EU) as a sugar beet seed dressing in 2021...

An impromptu straw-poll on the main issues for the food and agri sector for 2021 and beyond, carried out amongst food producers, businesses and associated professionals yielded some interesting responses...

The Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), the trade agreement between the UK and the EU was ratified by the UK Parliament on 30 December 2020 and the EU Parliament will consider the draft in early 2021...

The year 2020 started with an avian flu outbreak and it looks like it will be ending with one. ..

Defra has published information to help farmers and those in the farming industry understand changes to farming policy that will come into effect in England from 1 January 2021...

The ‘landmark’ Agriculture Act 2020 was passed into law on 11 November 2020. 3 key issues are reviewed below...

Summer 2020, the government set out its’ Tackling Obesity’ strategy...