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Re: Britain outside the EU
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-55904189
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Brexit: Michael Gove calls for extension of Brexit grace periods
Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has called for grace periods to be extended, to allow businesses more time to adapt to new Irish Sea border processes.
The EU's usual rules on customs and product standards are not yet being fully enforced at NI ports.
The first of the grace periods agreed by the UK and EU is set to expire at the end of March.
NI Secretary Brandon Lewis previously said he did not expect any extensions.
But speaking on Tuesday in the House of Commons, Mr Gove said there were "serious problems" with the NI Protocol that needed to be addressed.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson previously played down concerns about the protocol and called them "teething problems", but Mr Gove said he would not describe them this way.
"We do need to make sure grace periods are extended so that supermarkets can continue to provide consumers with goods they need," he said.
The minister said he would write to the EU with "specific proposals", and confirmed a meeting would take place with Stormont's first and deputy first ministers, Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill, on Wednesday along his with EU counterpart European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic.
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