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Originally Posted by jonbxx
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The EU know full well what the UK rules are.
So have the EU approved the arrangements and will they continue to do so in a reasonable way? Did the EU say that it wasn't certain that they would be approved? Those are the unanswered questions.
As far as the NI protocol is concerned there is a mass of decisions the Joint committee has yet to make.
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has accused the European Union of threatening a trade border down the Irish Sea and a food blockade between Northern Ireland and the rest of country.
"We are now hearing that, unless we agree to the EU's terms, the EU will use an extreme interpretation of the Northern Ireland protocol to impose a full-scale trade border down the Irish Sea," Johnson wrote in an article that was published in the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
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Johnson said a blockade could occur unless the government agreed to terms put forward by the EU bloc. He said the EU was posing a risk to the UK and peace in Northern Ireland, where sectarian violence had mostly been kept at bay since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. He stated he wanted a trade deal similar to that between Canada and the EU, adding that "if the EU is willing to offer these terms to Canada then it makes sense to offer the same to us."
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The European Commission is due to decide in the coming months on whether to allow British exports of live animals, products of animal origin, such as meat, fish, eggs and dairy products, and animal by-products to continue.
The granting of a "third country" licence to the whole of the UK had been seen as something of a formality, given the EU's similar arrangements with other nations.
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A Downing Street spokesman said: "It would be very unusual for the EU to go down this route and deny the UK listing.
"The right to export is the absolute basis for a relationship between two countries that trade agricultural goods. It is a licence to export and entirely separate from the issue of food standards."
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So the EU yet haven't granted anything even though UK rules are same or similar, and certainly would've been the SAME at the start of the (non-)Transition phase.