Boris Johnson: Northern Ireland grace period extensions ‘sensible’

The grace period affects supermarkets and other retailers, which face having to provide export health certificates for all shipments of animal products

The EU has threatened legal action and suggested the UK may be breaking international law after the British Government unilaterally extended until the autumn the light-touch regulatory periods due to end this month. Photo: Hannah Mckay/PA Wire

Temporary and technical extensions to post-Brexit trade grace periods in Northern Ireland are sensible, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.

The EU has threatened legal action and suggested the UK may be breaking international law after the British Government unilaterally extended until the autumn the light-touch regulatory periods due to end this month.