The province of the North reflects the difficulties associated with “British inequality”.

At the port of Kallis, 4 January. – Michelle Spingler / AP / Sipa

The “manifest lack” of Brexit by the British is a “real risk” for managing cross-channel traffic in the coming weeks, warns the Prefect of the North in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Jean Castex on Friday. In a letter dated 14 January, the prefect of the North Defense and Security Zone, Michel Lalande, said, “The technological shift to granting the United Kingdom the status of a third country is technically successful on the French side.” A view of the consequences of Brexit two weeks after it came into existence.

This situation points to “real risk in the event of activity resuming”, he notes, while heavy goods traffic between the United Kingdom and France begins to gain strength after the beginning of January. very quiet. “The low level of traffic, the relative absence of goods transported for import, but the initial flexibility of state services in formal controls pose difficulties that are still very real”, storage car parks and channels at the port of Calais Having already found herself saturated several times at the exit of the tunnel, Michelle Lalande was concerned.

Recent progress

He underlines that many heavy goods vehicles remain blocked for “uneven delays”, sometimes more than sixty hours. Amid this problem is the fact that “health certificates completed by British authorities are incomplete and unsatisfactory, causing many heavy goods vehicles to land in France while the absence of this formality cannot be regulated”. Another problem weakening the “smart border” system, which should allow document control during crossings, is that agents of transportation companies often scan for incorrect documents.

Facing these difficulties, recalling the “constant dialogue between the French and British services”, Michel Lalande indicates that the situation has improved since the beginning of the week, particularly due to the tightening of controls on the French side .

In his letter, the prefect also points to the concern that continues in the French fishing sector, with the terms of the application of the cooperation agreement taking time to become clear. He said he feared that the port of Boglenay-sur-Mer would “lose its position in the long term” as the leading French fishing port “gave the greatest reduction in landing” of seafood. A meeting on this subject was held on Friday. In Bologne among representatives of the state and fishermen.

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