Revealed: All you eat and drink to be regulated by the EU, under plans announced yesterday

“EU are what you eat” - Government’s latest ‘EU Re-Set’ gifts EU chance to grow its 71% share of food imports to UK

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Exclusive: ½ million UK food, farming and retail businesses to be hit by costs of Government ‘EU Re-Set’

The EU will be jumping up and down with joy following the UK Government’s latest announcement on its ‘EU Re-Set’, announced in Parliament yesterday. The reaction will be very different for most of the ½ million UK businesses involved in the food, farming, and ancillary sectors, where costs are expected to run into many hundreds of millions of pounds.

Of all the Government’s elements of its re-set deal announced last May by Sir Keir Starmer, following his ‘Summit’ with the EU, this is the one that will affect every person in the UK. Next year, all you eat and drink will be regulated by the EU

Government forced to admit to negotiations concluding in months

On Monday the DEFRA Secretary of State, the Rt Hon Emma Reynolds MP, made a statement to the House regarding negotiations for the ‘SPS’ food and drinks deal as part of its ‘EU Re-Set’. Facts4EU can reveal to GB News readers that these detailed negotiations had in fact already started in January. In the second part of this report we will explain why Sir Keir’s hand was forced.

All involved in food & farming affected, even the majority who don’t sell to the EU

The EU’s ‘Supermarket Sweep” of the UK

Meanwhile, the ½ million UK businesses involved and their trade bodies have been warning for the last year about the increased costs of enacting all the changes demanded by the EU Commission in order that EU produce “will reach supermarket shelves more quickly,” as Ms Reynolds put it in her statement.

As the UK’s new global trade deals are only just starting to take effect on increased choices and lower prices in the supermarkets from products that can now be sourced from outside the EU, the EU continues to enjoy a massive trade surplus with the UK in food and drink.

EU to benefit far more than UK, as EU’s £31bn surplus in food trade set to increase further and faster

Huge sectors of British business will be impacted

The only way to show the massive number of sectors of British business which will have to adapt to EU regulations under the Government’s planned ‘SPS’ deal with the EU is to list some of the EU Regulations and Directives which will have to be followed from next year. We have compiled this exclusively, from information we have obtained from DEFRA.

It should be noted that these businesses will not only have to adapt to the new deal from next year, but also on a dynamic basis going forward, as the EU’s regulations get added to or change. This will therefore involve annual costs in order to keep checking on, and applying, the new Regulations and Directives.

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Other aspects to this Government's plans

There are many other areas to consider, which it is not possible to list in full in a summary report such as this. One example is the impact on businesses who are importing from non-EU countries. Going forward, the ability to import certain products will be restricted, even if they are cheaper than the alternatives available from the EU.

Additionally, the Government has been keen to stress that since Brexit UK food exporters have had extra costs and delays due to EU procedures. This is true. HOWEVER, the reason for this is very simple. It is because the EU has chosen to make life as difficult as possible for UK businesses. They did not have to do this but like many other behaviours from the EU since the British people voted to leave the bloc, they decided to make like difficult.

As a result, they will now get what they wanted. Under this Government the UK is set to align itself completely with EU rules, regulations and directives, and will prevent it from buying cheaper produce from around the world.

Critically, this deal will also prevent the UK from using its world expertise in areas like preventing crop disease through genetic modification, increasing efficiency and productivity per acre. The UK will go back to the lower standards of agriculture in the EU. Once again, our farmers will get hit, just when many of them are struggling to survive the new laws imposed on them, such as inheritance tax, etc.

Finally, how big or small is this export market for the UK?

All exports contribute to the UK’s GDP and are therefore important, although naturally some are larger and more important than others. For a radical measure like this one from the Government, which makes this area of business exactly like it is part of the EU, it might be thought it would be significant.

As ever, Facts4EU has punched the official numbers.

The UK’s exports of food and drink to the EU in fact represent just 0.5% of UK GDP.

[ Sources: ONS | HMG | Hansard | HMRC ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org, Tues 10 Mar 2026

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