The government has published an updated Border Target Operating model, setting out plans to maximise the use of technology to improve security and biosecurity controls and streamline imports and ...

Parliament’s Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) committee has warned that the UK’s commercial import system for animals and plants is failing, ...

Tomorrow, 11 May, the Welsh Food Advisory Committee, which is part of the Food Standards Authority (FSA), will discuss the new Border Target Operating Model (BTOM), a government document which will ...

The UK’s post-Brexit Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) is likely to disrupt EU traders as they grapple with teething problems, customs and trade specialists have stressed. The new rules have been ...

UK checks on certain produce from Europe have been delayed until 2027. Planned post-Brexit border checks on medium-risk fruits and vegetables will now start beginning Jan. 31, 2027. Controls were ...

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The Government in the United Kingdom has set out long-delayed plans on how checks on food imports will work. The draft Border Target Operating Model was developed with the Scottish and Welsh ...

This blog explores the strategic importance of Target Operating Models (TOMs) in regulatory compliance and transformational change. Many people are aware that financial institutions are currently ...

A new report from the Efra Committee has echoed concerns the NFU has been raising for years about the government's BTOM (Border Target Operating Model), warning that the UK's biosecurity is at serious ...