For example, cakes contain fresh cream - also a dairy product - and some sweets are made with gelatine - an animal product, are a no no. English cheeses like Cornish brie and Wensleydale, as well as clotted cream fudge are all no-nos as well. Other unusual food items that are banned include a jar of Bovril because it contains gelatine, as well as mince pies and Christmas puddings -although it’s a bit early to be thinking about those.
According to the FCO British government’s website: Personal goods containing meat, milk or their products brought into the EU continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union. It is known, for example, that dangerous pathogens that cause animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and classical swine fever can reside in meat, milk or their products.
Therefore, pathogens could be introduced into the EU if personal goods containing meat, milk or their products are sent by post or carried in the baggage of travellers arriving from countries outside the EU, where such pathogens may be circulating.
Legislation
The current rules are laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2122EN, which repeals and replaces the previously applicable Commission Regulation (EC) No 206/2009. This Regulation clearly explains to the general public the rules concerning the introduction of animal products into the EU. Travellers are not allowed to bring in meat, milk or their products, unless they are coming with less than 10 kilograms of these products from the Faeroe Islands or Greenland
There is also an exemption for powdered infant milk, infant food, and special foods or special pet feed required for medical reasons, if weighing less than 2 kilograms and provided that: such products do not require refrigeration before opening, that they are packaged proprietary brand products for direct sale to the final consumer, and the packaging is unbroken unless in current use.
For fishery products (including fish and certain shellfish such as prawns, lobsters, dead mussels and dead oysters), travellers are allowed to bring in up to 20 kilograms or the weight of one fish if this is higher. However, there is no such weight restriction for travellers coming from the Faeroe Islands or Greenland
For other animal products, such as honey, live oysters, live mussels and snails for example, travellers are allowed to bring in up to 2 kilograms These rules do not apply to animal products transported between the EU Member States, or for animal products coming from Andorra, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, San Marino or Switzerland. Enforcing the rules governing the introduction of personal consignments of meat, milk or their products is vital.
Provisions include:
The organisation of controls at EU entry points to detect the presence of illegal consignments of meat, milk or their products. Where necessary, the deployment of appropriate detection aids such as scanning equipment and detector dogs to screen large quantities of baggage. The seizure and destruction of personal consignments that are found to be in breach of the rules.
Mechanisms to ensure that those responsible for illegal consignments may be liable for costs or penalties.
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Burgundy BlueHahahaha my BP is spot on because I read this comic to give me a good chuckle - and you should know laughter is the best medicine! Try it some time! Ahahahahhaha. 116/70 all the way baby!
TawnyWatch your blood pressure, mate.
Hahahahahaha clown world in all its glory again! So now the invisible bureaucratic borders are back, suddenly it presents a health risk again! What a load of old tosh! It was no problem for the last however many years, but suddenly is again. Jamon, give me a break!
Ah gone are the good old days of packing a suitcase of wafer thin ham and blocks of cheese to take on holiday. And never shall frozen prawns covered in Bovril pass my lips. Sad times. The end of an era. Woah is me.
That "British" sandwich with Swiss Emmenthaler on Spanish tomatoes 🤣
I wish we could just rejoin, would make life a lot simpler
Organ WelshmanHey "loadsamoney" You might want to take a look at the "poor abused Brits in Mallorca" sensationalist clickbait title of this much ado about nothing tabloid article. Or is it that title that attracted you in the first place? Great stuff, eh? Just goes to reinforce how much those lowlife hippy eco-warrior yoga commie foreigners really hate us. I mean look at that good "British" sandwich that "Mallorca" has "banned". What were they thinking? They're just jealous. But they'll be hungry soon and begging for our sandwiches again. And our money. Good job those foreigners don't live in Son Vida, eh? Enjoy your sandwich.
Have your cake & eat it 😀😀
Morgan Williams resident bore, hates Brits. Why do you come on here? You get more downvotes than anyone times 3. Are you really really bored or as I supect, have zero mates? That would explain a lot. #samaritans.
Damn communists!