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Originally Posted by jonbxx
The quote you posted had the following line;
It's not asking what controls need to be in place, that as been agreed, cementing Northern Irelands place in the Single Market. All that is needed are the formal UK documents stating the standards that will be followed.
The 'what' has been agreed and just needs to be formalised, the 'how' has not
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Nothing contradictory about it. An agreement HASN'T yet been made, with little over 3 months to go. No agreed solution = not allowed. EG if you need permission from somebody else to get access to somewhere, and they don't give it, you don't have access. NI is ALSO part of the UK single market.
So what is this "what" that has been agreed? Any "how" is part of the "what", and would still be something we had to ask the EU permission about.
There are no existing EU rules to deal with the situation of movement of goods from GB to NI, other than a hard border and tariffs.