talking after a meeting with Foreign Secretary Liz Truss MP on 25 May 2022 at Hillsborough Castle in Northern Ireland, the association’s Northern Ire and policy director, Seamus Leheny verified that Logistics UK had called on the UK and EU to agree on mitigations on the NI Protocol and cover trading connections for the benefit of businesses and consumers on both sides of the Irish Sea.
“ Logistics UK is keen to work with parties from both the UK and EU to ensure that trade can continue to flow freely across the Irish Sea and has committed to engaging with both EU stakeholders and with government mates to impact the European Commission to come to the table for conversations. Presently, the NI Protocol is only being incompletely applied due to grace ages – it’s vital we avoid full
Perpetration that would affect in added administration and walls to GB and NI trade,” Leheny said.
“Ms. Truss was open to the proffers and enterprises tabled at our meeting regarding the issues raised by NI business groups, and we look forward to working through the detail with her and her platoon to cover the UK and Northern Ireland force chains. Too numerous businesses and livelihoods depend on its success for the process to fail now. Areas stressed in the meeting included business to consumer parcels, SPS controls, and an implicit Trusted Trader scheme for GB goods fated to NI.
“As a business group, our primary concern is to work constructively with the government on systems and procedures and support all those involved to make the Protocol work as efficiently as possible. Political positions mustn’t be allowed to ail the process on which so numerous people’s livelihoods depend, and we remain married to relating and driving forwards results to iron out the problems which have arisen therefore