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The House of Commons votes in favour of the Brexit bill. This means that the UK is on track to leave the EU on 31 January. However, the House of Lords and the European Parliament have not yet approved the agreement. The 599-page Withdrawal Agreement covers the following main areas:[16] On 17 October 2019, the UK and the EU reached an agreement on the terms of the UK`s withdrawal from the EU (Brexit) and on a transition period until 31 December 2020. If the Withdrawal Agreement is abandoned, there may not even be a new trade deal between the UK and the EU, or at least not for many years. It`s no exaggeration to say that we`re essentially not much further than we were on that historic sunny morning in June 2016. A future trade deal between the UK and the EU is to be approved by more than 40 national and regional assemblies, from Lisbon to Bratislava. Approval cannot be presumed: not so long ago, the Walloon Parliament, which covered the French-speaking south of Belgium, vetoed and delayed the EU-Canada trade agreement, Ceta. It would be surprising if the Dail Eireann or the Cortes Generales did not try to make last-minute concessions to Northern Ireland and Gibraltar. This is the biggest sticking point so far, as the DUP refuses to support the deal without better deals. Technically correct, but the Withdrawal Agreement is not intended for future trade. It describes a rescue trade deal that includes something like a customs union, but the future permanent trade relationship is a matter of future negotiations.

We can leave the EU without a deal and negotiate a free trade agreement during the transition period. The UK and the EU are currently negotiating a trade deal that aims to eliminate tariffs on each other`s goods and keep controls to a minimum. Immediately after the announcement of a revised withdrawal agreement on 17 October 2019, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the DUP declared that they could not support the new agreement. [30] On 22 October, the British Parliament agreed to review the Brexit legislation. But he decided it needed longer than the British Prime Minister had proposed. This means that a withdrawal with an agreement on the desired Brexit date of 31 October is no longer possible. The Brexit deal will not come into force until Brexit legislation is passed by the UK Parliament. There are ten annexes to the project. The first is a protocol to maintain an open border between the EU and the UK on the island of Ireland (commonly known as the “Irish backstop”). The second concerns arrangements for a common customs territory between the EU and the UK until a technical solution can be found that offers both an open border and an independent customs policy. The third concerns operations in the common customs territory.

The fourth concerns “good governance in the areas of taxation, environmental protection, social and labour standards, state aid, competition and public enterprises. The fifth to eighth concerns the relevant provisions of EU law. The ninth and tenth describe the procedures resulting from the main sections of the project. The Declaration on the Future Relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom, also known as the Political Declaration, is a non-binding declaration negotiated and signed in conjunction with the binding and broader Withdrawal Agreement in the context of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (EU), colloquially known as Brexit, and the planned end of the transition period. We could still try to negotiate a post-Brexit free trade agreement with the EU in a no-deal scenario, it`s just that without the withdrawal agreement and the transition period, the UK`s relationship with the EU will be very different immediately after March 2019. On the 22nd. In October 2019, the House of Commons voted by 329 votes to 299 to give a second reading to the revised withdrawal agreement (negotiated by Boris Johnson earlier this month), but when the accelerated timetable he proposed did not receive the necessary parliamentary support, Johnson announced that the legislation would be suspended. [38] [12] It is important to note that the Withdrawal Agreement only covers the period from the UK`s withdrawal date to the end of 2020. The Northern Ireland Protocol, negotiated last October by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, is part of the Withdrawal Agreement (which some have referred to as a “divorce agreement”) in which the UK left the EU on 31 January 2020. The United Kingdom triggers Article 50.

This means that negotiations on the UK`s withdrawal from the EU can begin. The EU and the UK have two years to reach an agreement. The new relationship between the EU and the UK will start if an agreement has been reached that has been approved by EU member states, the European Parliament and the UK Parliament. Sky News explains what each element of the agreement covers. The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 at midnight CET (23:00 GMT). There is now a transitional period until December 31, 2020. During this period, all EU rules and laws will continue to apply in the UK. For businesses or for the public, almost nothing will change. This gives everyone more time to prepare for the new deals that the EU and the UK want to conclude after 31 December 2020. The EU accepted Mrs May`s request to postpone Brexit on 29 March and proposed a new date until 22 March. May, if the agreement is supported by MPs. A final agreement must not interfere with “the integrity of the single market and customs union and the indivisibility of the four freedoms” — the free movement of goods, services, capital and people — the document says.

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