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About 200 trucks passed through the Channel tunnel in both directions last night, a source from the Eurotunnel management company Getlink told Efe, noting that no vehicle was prevented from entering as a result of Brexit.
“They all complied with the procedures and trucks were not prevented due to errors in the documentation,” the company spokesperson said today.
In addition, the first London passenger train left the tunnel at 10:05 local time (09:05 in Lisbon), without complications, the source added.
The documentation is verified at the station where the security check was carried out. In this place, now are the Brexit agents, whose only task is to verify the registration data and the dates of the documents that will be transmitted digitally to the customs services.
Other customers have chosen to subscribe to a virtual service, completing the data before starting the trip, only that the cameras detect the vehicle’s license plate number so that the information is automatically transmitted to customs.
There is also no record of incidents in transport truck traffic.
This afternoon, the French Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clement Beaune, and the Deputy Minister of Public Accounts, Olivier Dussopt, will visit the cities of Boulogne-sur-Mer and Calais, to travel to the ports of the two cities. and the Eurotunnel on the first day after the United Kingdom leaves the European Union (EU).
In his New Year’s speech, French President Emmanuel Macron pointed out on Thursday that behind the Brexit exit there were “many lies”, arguing that “the United Kingdom remains a neighbor, but also a friend and ally.” .
Brexit came true at 11:00 p.m. on Thursday, almost a year after the UK officially left the European Union (EU) on January 31, 2020, following a popular referendum in 2016.
A new Trade and Cooperation Agreement, concluded on December 24, entered into force at 23:00 (the same time in London and midnight in Brussels), to succeed the post-Brexit transition period, during which the Kingdom Kingdom maintained access to the single market and respect for European standards.
Breaking the last ties of a relationship of almost 50 years, the agreement guarantees mutual access of products to the two markets without quotas or customs duties, but there are a series of trade barriers, such as more customs controls and bureaucracy in economic transactions.
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