The European Commission today launched two new legal proceedings against Britain following the publication of British plans to repeal the Northern Ireland Protocol governing trade with the British province and reopened another legal proceeding that had been suspended.
These proceedings may result in fines being imposed by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
The Commission, which oversees relations between the former European Union member Britain and the European bloc, has said it still wants to resume talks with Britain on resolving difficulties in sending British products to Northern Ireland.
The United Kingdom remains in the single market for the goods, which means that imports from the rest of the United Kingdom are subject to customs declarations and, in some cases, customs controls on arrival.
The Northern Ireland Protocol was aimed at preventing the reopening of the border between the Republic of Ireland, an EU member, and Northern Ireland, a province of the United Kingdom, which would threaten the 1998 peace agreement end to the thirties of the Troubles. As it is clear that the border between the European Union and the United Kingdom should be defined somewhere, the Protocol arrangements placed it in the sea separating Britain from Northern Ireland.
“The British government has announced its intention to violate international law,” said a European official. “We do not think it is legal to learn that unilaterally changing an agreement is wrong.”
SOURCE: AMPE
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