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French prison that imposed forced labour on its inmates.

Border Control Point. A designated EU customs facility set up to carry out food safety checks on third country shipments arriving in the EU and inspect inbound goods, such as high risk animal products or plant products. The UK has a number of facilities that conformed to EU standards. More recent facilities have been built since Brexit, but given the divergence that has occurred on border food safety checks under BTOM, the fact that these facilities are often referred to as BCPs should not be taken as an indication of compliance, let alone conformity. Inland food inspection facilities such as Sevington, for instance, would struggle to gain accreditation, which is awarded by the European Commission.

French word for middle class suburb, more familiar in the adjective bourgeois or middle class.

Border Target Operating Model is the British government’s blueprint for re-inventing ports in what is left of the twenty first century. It is based on a set of notions about how a port functions, but some are so wide of the mark that they get in the way. Some abbreviations lend themselves to being adopted as acronyms, but not in this case. See the Ports In Practice post when it is published.