On October 22, 2019, the House of Commons voted by 329 votes to 299 to give a second reading to the revised withdrawal agreement (negotiated by Boris Johnson earlier this month), but when the accelerated timetable he proposed did not receive the necessary parliamentary support, Johnson announced that the legislation would be suspended. [38] [12] The agreement also provides for a transitional period, which lasts until 31 December 2020 and can be extended once by mutual agreement. During the transition period, EU law will continue to apply to the UK (including participation in the European Economic Area, the Single Market and the Customs Union) and the UK will continue to contribute to the EU budget, but the UK will not be represented in EU decision-making bodies. The transition period will give businesses time to adjust to the new situation and give THE UK and EU governments time to negotiate a new EU-UK trade deal. [17] [18] The Withdrawal Agreement, which comprises 599 pages, covers the following main areas:[16] On 20 December 2019, following the Conservatives` victory in the 2019 BRITISH general election, the House of Commons passed the second reading of the Withdrawal Agreement Act by a majority of 358 votes to 234. Following amendments from the House of Lords and a ping-pong between the two houses, the bill received Royal Assent on January 23, 2020 and allowed ratification on the British side. [39] The Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, officially titled the Agreement on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community[3][4], is a treaty between the European Union (EU), Euratom and the United Kingdom (UK)[5], signed on 24 January 2020, which sets out the conditions for the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU and Euratom. The text of the treaty was published on 17 October 2019[6] and is a renegotiated version of an agreement published six months earlier. The previous version of the Withdrawal Agreement was rejected three times by the House of Commons, leading Queen Elizabeth II to accept Theresa May`s resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and to appoint Boris Johnson as the new Prime Minister on 24 July 2019.
the end of the 2020-2021 spring semester. [20] Immediately after the announcement of a revised withdrawal agreement on 17 October 2019, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the DUP declared that they could not support the new agreement. [30] The 2019 revisions also adapted elements of the Policy Statement by replacing the word ”adequate” with ”adequate” with respect to labour standards. According to Sam Lowe, Trade Fellow at the Centre for European Reform, the change excludes labour standards from dispute resolution mechanisms. [27] In addition, the level playing field mechanism has been moved from the legally binding Withdrawal Agreement to the Political Declaration[24] and the line in the Political Declaration that ”the UK will consider aligning itself with EU rules in relevant areas” has been deleted. [26] After winning a Conservative majority in the election, the bill was revised and reintroduced on December 19, before being passed at second reading the following day. On January 21, 2020, the House of Lords passed the bill after approving five amendments. However, these amendments were repealed by the House of Commons the next day. [12] [13] On 13 November 2017, Brexit Minister David Davis announced his intention to enshrine the Withdrawal Agreement, if any, in national law. .
