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Originally Posted by nomadking
We're forced to accept food related items that don't meet our standards. Eg Many years ago we had different rules to France on UHT milk. We tried to stop French UHT milk coming into the UK. The EU stopped us. It may seem a small example, but an example it still is. There may have been others I'm not aware of.
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That doesn't seem to have been the situation.
As far as I can see our laws for UHT milk within the UK broke EEC common market rules we'd signed up to. We didn't want to check the quality of UHT milk from the EEC or have any method to do so.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-cont...CJ0124&from=FR
So the the ruling was as we couldn't explain exactly how other EEC members could meet the criteria for imports without onerous obligations not required of UK producers, we were in breach of the treaty.