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WORLD NEWS Friday 24 august 2018

UK govt says 'no-deal' Brexit would mean red tape, expense

By JILL LAWLESS U.K. will recognize EU stan-
Associated Press dards for testing medicines,
LONDON (AP) — Businesses so drugs from the bloc
could face red tape at the won't need to be re-tested
border, customers could in the U.K. But new drugs
see higher credit card fees, and treatments would still
patients could endure de- need approval from the
lays to medical treatment U.K. medicines regulator
and there could even be before they could be sold
a sperm shortage if Britain in Britain.
leaves the European Union Steve Bates, chief execu-
next year without a deal, tive of the U.K. Bioindus-
the U.K. government ac- try Association, said that
knowledged Thursday. meant British patients
But Prime Minister Theresa "would get access to new
May's Conservative gov- therapies later than other
ernment vowed it would countries in Europe."
limit the instability that Brexit could also affect the
could be triggered by a supply of semen for fertility
disorderly Brexit, releas- treatment, the papers say.
ing documents outlining its Almost half of Britain's do-
plans to cope. nor sperm currently comes
Even if Britain crashes out from EU member Denmark.
of the bloc next year with- Britain's Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, Dominic Raab delivers speech outlining If there's no deal, Britain will
out a trade deal, its plans government's plans no-deal Brexit in London, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018. be outside the EU's direc-
include unilaterally ac- Associated Press tive on organs, tissues and
cepting some EU rules and cells, and U.K. fertility clinics
giving EU financial services The government insists companies operate there. could follow Brexit. will need to strike new writ-
firms continued access to it's confident of getting a That could leave British re- Britain will need new regu- ten agreements with their
the U.K. market. deal, but is preparing for tirees living in EU countries latory bodies to carry out suppliers.
Brexit Secretary Dominic all outcomes. On Thursday unable to receive their functions currently done The papers reveal that Brit-
Raab said Britain was de- it published the first 25 of pensions. by the EU, and British busi- ish organic farmers won't
termined to "manage the more than 70 papers cov- Raab said Britain would nesses that now trade free- be able to export their pro-
risks and embrace the op- ering "no-deal" planning for take "unilateral action to ly with the bloc will face duce to the EU unless the
portunities" of Brexit. sectors including financial maintain as much continu- new paperwork if there is bloc certifies U.K. standards
"We have made clear services, medicines and ity as possible" and insisted no deal. — a process that can't start
that if negotiations don't nuclear materials. The rest that "for the vast majority For goods going to and until after Brexit and takes
achieve the optimum out- are to be released by the of consumers in this coun- coming in from the EU, "an nine months. And the wide-
come, we will continue to end of September. try, there's not going to be import declaration will be ly recognized organic logo
be a responsible European The documents urge peo- much change at all." required, customs checks plastered across everything
neighbor and partner," he ple and businesses not to He dismissed alarming may be arrived out and from vegetables to beef
said in a speech Thursday be alarmed, and say the headlines suggesting the any customs duties must be belongs to the EU, so U.K.
to business leaders in Lon- government will work to U.K. could run out of sand- paid," one document says. producers will no longer be
don. "minimize any disruption to wich supplies and other And one of the thorniest able to use it.
With seven months un- the economy." staples because of eco- questions — how to main- Cigarette packaging also
til Britain leaves the EU on The papers say Britain will nomic barriers between tain an open border, free will have to be redesigned,
March 29, negotiations on allow EU financial services Britain and the EU, its big- of customs posts, between because the EU holds the
divorce terms and future firms continued "passport- gest trading partner. EU member Ireland and the copyright on the photos of
trade have bogged down ing" rights to operate in the "You will still be able to en- U.K.'s Northern Ireland — re- diseased lungs and other
amid infighting within May's U.K. for up to three years, joy a BLT after Brexit," Raab mains unanswered. off-putting images embla-
divided government about even if no agreement is said. But the documents "We will provide more infor- zoned on the packs.
how close an economic re- reached with the EU — al- reveal the possible scale mation in due course," is all And millions of Britons could
lationship to seek with the though it can't guarantee of disruption to the British the documents say. find online shopping more
EU. that the bloc will let U.K. economy and daily life that The government said the expensive. q