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<p>Leaving the EU presents a major opportunity for UK agricultural and fisheries sectors.
There will be opportunities to build on our world-leading reputation of quality and
standards. We are focused on making sure all of our policies deliver for the UK, grow
our world-leading food and farming industry, and improve our environment. In 2016,
60 per cent of UK food, feed and drink exports were to countries in the EU, whilst
70 per cent of UK imports of food, feed and drink during the same period were from
the EU. This underlines the UK’s and EU’s mutual interest in continuing high levels
of market access in future.</p><p>The Department for Exiting the European Union, working
with officials across Government, is in the process of carrying out a programme of
rigorous and extensive analytical work that will contribute to our exit negotiations
with the EU, to define our future partnership with the EU, and to inform our understanding
of how EU exit will affect the UK’s domestic policies and frameworks. <br><br>We want
our future relationship with the EU to be a deep and special partnership, taking in
both economic and security cooperation. We are confident that a future partnership
between the UK and EU is in the interests of both sides, so we approach these negotiations
anticipating success. We think that is by far and away the highest probability. We
do not want or expect a no deal outcome, but we have a duty to plan for an alternative
to the unlikely scenario in which no mutually satisfactory agreement can be reached.
That is exactly what we are doing across the whole of Government.</p>
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