The United Kingdom has suspended for an indefinite period its plans for post-Brexit checks on some goods entering Northern Ireland after negotiations with the European Union (EU) reached a stalemate. Britain’s Brexit minister David Frost last evening revealed a fresh extension to the Northern Ireland protocol, with no new deadline set for finishing talks.
“To provide space for potential further discussions, and to give certainty and stability to businesses while any such discussions proceed, the government will continue to operate the protocol on the current basis,” Frost said in a written statement.The United Kingdom has suspended for an indefinite period its plans for post-Brexit checks on some goods entering Northern Ireland after negotiations with the European Union (EU) reached a stalemate. Britain's Brexit minister David Frost last evening revealed a fresh extension to the Northern Ireland protocol, with no new deadline set for finishing talks.#
“This includes the grace periods and easements currently in force … We will ensure that reasonable notice is provided in the event that these arrangements were to change, to enable businesses and citizens to prepare,” he added.
Grace periods marked to ease the shift into new trading arrangements and checks on the island of Ireland have twice been extended.
Brussels withheld its formal agreement on the move. The EU will hold back from launching legal proceedings over the extension of the status quo, with a spokesman saying the European Commission is “not moving to the next stage of the infringement procedure launched in March 2021, and is not opening any new infringements for now”.
Frost and Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin met over the weekend at a conference in Oxford and discussed the issue as well.
At the conference, Frost urged the EU to take the UK’s proposals seriously and said it was seeking changes in three areas: the movement of goods into Northern Ireland, the standards for goods within the region, and the governance arrangements for that trade, according to British media reports.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)
20240925092649.png)
.jpg?tr=w-120,h-60,c-at_max,cm-pad_resize,bg-ffffff "UBM China (Shanghai)")
-Ltd..jpg?tr=w-120,h-60,c-at_max,cm-pad_resize,bg-ffffff "Thermore (Far East) Ltd.")
