This chapter contains provisions which facilitate trade whilst ensuring the protection of human, animal, and plant life and health.

It does not create any new permissions or authorisations for imports from India. All products imported into the UK will have to comply with our food safety and biosecurity standards, as they do already.

The chapter protects the UK’s regulatory autonomy to set our own independent standards, ensuring the UK can continue to uphold our high level of protection for human, animal, and plant life and health.

Provisions on equivalence and regionalisation will aid the export of agri-food products to India and facilitate the safe import of such products to the UK. The UK and India have committed to cooperate on antimicrobial resistance and animal welfare, and will cooperate and exchange information and expertise.