The EU opens two new procedures for non-compliance with goods controls and relaunching a third that can lead to appeal to European justice, and therefore to sanctions or financial penalty.
Le Monde with AFP
The European Commission had warned. After the launch of a unilateral revision of the post-Brexit status of Northern Ireland, the European executive announced, Wednesday, June 15, the launch against London of two new procedures for non-compliance with goods controls and revival of a third procedure which can lead to an appeal to European justice, and therefore to sanctions or financial compensation.
“The purpose of these procedures” is to force Great Britain “to comply with the North Irish protocol”, concluded within the framework of the Brexit Treaty, explained at a Maros Sefcovic press conference, the Commissioner responsible for the post-Brexit agreement. “Acting in a unilateral way is not constructive. Railing international agreements is not acceptable,” he said.
project presented on Monday in the British Parliament
The British government presented its bill in Parliament on Monday, which calls into question the post-Brexit status of Northern Ireland, after claiming for months a revision of the protocol, which Europeans refuse, conceding Only arrangements.
The protocol aims to protect the European single market after Brexit without provoking the return of a physical demarcation between the British province and the Republic of Ireland, member of the European Union, which could call into question the agreements Irish peace.
To resolve this quadrature of the circle, the government of Boris Johnson had accepted that Northern Ireland remains de facto within the European market, establishing a customs border in the Irish Sea, with controls and paperwork. This situation complicates the supplies and horrible the Unionist community, which believes that the place of the province within the United Kingdom is threatened.