NEW BREXIT WITHDRAWAL DEAL LIKELY TO COMMIT UK TO FOLLOW EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS
November 1st, 2018
THE DRAFT Brexit agreement that has caused political controversy in the UK, but which the European Union (EU) insists is its final offer, would – if approved – see many EU environmental regulations stay in force within Britain, for the foreseeable future.
The complex 585-page agreement that lays out the terms by which the UK would quit the EU, as planned on March 29, is supposed to be a temporary agreement. But it allows for Britain to stay in a customs union with the EU for longer than a proposed transitional period to December 2020, during which time EU ...
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