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"The UK government has unveiled a plan to do away with key aspects of the
Northern Ireland protocol. This is the legal instrument that governs trade in
goods in relation to Northern Ireland post-Brexit.
The Northern Ireland protocol bill proposes setting up a “dual regulatory
system” that lets businesses choose whether to abide by UK or EU regulations
when selling goods in Northern Ireland. It also creates a “green channel” that
would remove customs and regulatory checks on goods entering Northern Ireland
from Great Britain, while keeping checks on goods that are moving through
Northern Ireland to the rest of the EU.
At present, the protocol ensures there is no hard border on the island of
Ireland, by keeping Northern Ireland within the EU’s single market for goods.
But critics of the protocol see these checks on the Irish Sea border as
undermining the integrity of the internal British market, and some within the
unionist community see these checks as a threat to their British identity.
The bill overrides large parts of the EU-UK withdrawal agreement, an
international treaty. It disapplies most of the EU law provisions under the
protocol which regulate the movement of goods. It also cuts out the Court of
Justice of the European Union in resolving trade disputes related to the
protocol.
The question is now whether the UK can justify this move in the eyes of the
law."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
