Defra has told the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee it is learning its lessons on border controls and taking steps to make them make them more secure.  Responding to the Committee’s recent heavily-critical  report, UK-EU Trade: Towards a resilient border strategy, the department broadly accepted many of the conclusions and recommendations relating to the UK’s trade in food and plant products. EFRA’s report found several flaws in the current arrangements around the workings of the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) – In its response, Defra acknowledges that to maintain standards and safeguard biosecurity at borders, a ‘robust, risk-based regime…