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Ulster agri minister orders SPS checks to be stopped

Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has ordered officials to halt sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) checks at the ports in the province. He told a press conference on 2 February that he had obtained legal advice stating that Northern Ireland Executive approval was required to carry out the checks and that this had not been given. Edwin Poots is from the Democratic Unionist Party which is opposed to the customs arrangements agreed under the ... [+]