Post-Brexit checks on goods between NI and Britain to end under Stormont deal

DUP leader Jeffery Donaldson arriving at the BBC studios in Belfast, after Tánaiste Micheál Martin held a series of meetings with Northern Ireland political leaders. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Routine post-Brexit checks on goods shipped from Britain to final destinations in Northern Ireland are to be removed as part of a British government deal to restore powersharing at Stormont.

A command paper titled “Safeguarding The Union” commits to replacing the current green lane process, which requires percentages of goods to be checked as they arrive from Britain, with a “UK internal market system” that will govern the movement of goods that will remain within the United Kingdom.