EXPORTS TO E.E.C.

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29902, 16 August 1962, Page 16

EXPORTS TO E.E.C.

Standards Of Hygiene (Special Cr»pdt NXJ».A.) LONDON. August 15. If Britain enters the Common Market, New Zealand may well have to overhaul and change her regulations governing her standards of hygiene and sanitation for rite export of her farm produce. It would involve some expense. 'This fact emerges from regulations drafted by the E.E.C. for the marketing of pig meat, beef and veal and dairy produce which the E.E.C. is to start discussing in September. These show that the standards to be brought into effect by the community will be higher than those now operating in Britain.

They also indicate there will probably be a complicated system of imports needing VrtiflcaVs for entry which will amount to import control, import levies and customs duty. So tar, New Zealand has rarely faced any complications m getting her produce into Britain on the score of hygiene and sanitation. But there is no doubt that if the community's draft regulations are adopted—as they are likely to be—and if Britain becomes a member, a higher standard than is now operating here will be enforced. New Zealand will have to take note of these regulations, which will be applied to her exports to Britain and any other member of the community. It is believed tne E.E.C. drafts are now being studied by the Department ol Agriculture in Wellington.