Here's an explainer on the issue of checks on goods going from GB to NI by a senior EU official:
There are 3 commitments: We jointly agreed to avoid a hard border, there's a UK commitment to respect the single market, and also a commitment to protect the UK's internal market
There are 3 commitments: We jointly agreed to avoid a hard border, there's a UK commitment to respect the single market, and also a commitment to protect the UK's internal market
"This will be a decentralised processes. If a product goes from Liverpool to Belfast, there will be an online transit declaration which can be done in a back office.
"If it's an industrial good you have a barcode on a container, someone scans it on the ferry crossing or in the transit port. There are no systematic checks at the [sea] border.
"You may have checks at the destination. But they are risk-based, so you don’t do it blindly - you normally have info that there is something wrong with the consigment,
