New UK Border Target Operating Model

Today UK Government published the Border Target Operating Model (draft for feedback)).

This new model sets out a new global, risk-based model for security and security controls at the border. It also sets out a timeline for introducing these controls on EU goods for the first time.

This seeks to deliver the protections the UK needs at its border, while reducing the burdens on traders.

”An important element of this is more use of trust at the border and specifically within the SPS control regime”

Oliver St John, Deputy Director – Border Strategy, Governance and Innovation
Cabinet Office

An important element of this is more use of trust at the border and specifically within the SPS control regime. The draft model sets out the details of how DEFRA wants to take forward pilots of this approach at scale, though there is still a lot of detail to work through. As we’ve discussed we want to ensure the EoT consortia (which were the inception for many of these ideas) are part of those and we’ll be discussing with you further how to do that.

You can find the draft Border Target Operating Model here: UK Border Target Operating Model (draft)