21/01/2021 (Agence Europe) – The Mayors of French ports in the English Channel and North Sea asked, on Thursday 21 January, for the creation of a “European health coordination force” to control food products imported from the United Kingdom, saying they were worried about competition undercutting between European ports, reports AFP. “We can’t have any doubts about the quality of our food. The implementation of the trade agreement with the United Kingdom cannot suffer from any difference in treatment between European ports”, say the Mayors of Le Havre, Calais, Dunkirk and Boulogne-sur-Mer, accompanied by Pascal Canfin, Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Environment and Health. “In order to attract more goods, and therefore more revenue, some ports might be tempted to reduce the quality and frequency of their sanitary and phytosanitary controls”, they say. (SP)