Bonkers!

[Dave2002]

I was clearing out our fridge this morning, and came across a packet of Camembert. The cheese had gone, but it had been inside a typical cheese box - probably partly wood, partly cardboard.
I wondered if it was supposed to be recyclable, so I looked at the label on the underside.

There wasn't any information about recycling, but I noticed a few words indicating that the cheese had been made in France - as i might have expected, and brought to the UK.

Then I noticed the marking "Not for the EU"!

[Anastasius]

It's part of the Windsor framework and means that it's not been tested to EU standards. Whatever the difference may mean. Every day I discover yet another reason why we should never have left. My wife and I have no ties in the UK. Our house is on the market but where to move to. We rather fancied an adventure and upping sticks to live in Europe. France or Italy perhaps. Portugal. Greece beckons me but not my wife!

But here's the rub. You need to live in the country for five years before you can apply for residency. Residency gives you access to the health system of that country. But for those five years you have to have private health cover. I got the quote. Purely based on age and the assumption that if you are, say, in your 70's (as are we) that you are a decrepit old wreck rattling around with all the pills inside you, overweight and an alcoholic. Neither of us are on any pills. The premium? £600 a month. Each. Thank you Brexit.

Apologies for the hijack.

[Petrushka]

Didn't I read somewhere that the 'Not for the EU' thing is being discontinued? As Anastasius says it was to do with the Windsor Framework in order to prevent goods destined for the Northern Ireland market entering the EU via the Irish Republic. Think I've got that right.

[Beresford]

For cheese it probably means unpasteurized - so not allowed to be sold in the EU. I bought some cheese so marked in Tesco recently - tasted horrid and went off quickly.

[Dave2002]

For cheese it probably means unpasteurized - so not allowed to be sold in the EU. I bought some cheese so marked in Tesco recently - tasted horrid and went off quickly.

Seems odd if made within the EU - France.

[oddoneout]

Didn't I read somewhere that the 'Not for the EU' thing is being discontinued? As Anastasius says it was to do with the Windsor Framework in order to prevent goods destined for the Northern Ireland market entering the EU via the Irish Republic. Think I've got that right.

The Windsor Framework had several purposes, of which addressing trade issues was one.

With this new agreement, the UK Government fully preserves its longstanding commitments to ensure Northern Ireland’s businesses have full unconditional and unfettered access to their most important market in Great Britain, while maintaining their privileged access to the whole of the EU market.

https://www.nicustomstradeacademy.co.uk/overview-of-windsor-framework/

I gather that it came as a surprise to some that matters on the island of Ireland might make Brexit rather difficult...

[oddoneout]

For cheese it probably means unpasteurized - so not allowed to be sold in the EU. I bought some cheese so marked in Tesco recently - tasted horrid and went off quickly.

Cheese made in the UK from unpasteurised milk can, in theory, be sold to the EU, but in practice the costs and practicalities of the admin process, over and above the already onerous ones for pasteurised products, make it impossible.

[cria]

I was clearing out our fridge this morning, and came across a packet of Camembert. The cheese had gone, but ...

So it's roast mouse for Sunday lunch then?