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29 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Since COM is talking about using Art.16 of Northern Ireland Protocol to limit movement of vaccines to GB, let's look at that text a bit

trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/20…

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Art. 16 allows for proportionate safeguard measures in cases of difficulties 'that are liable to persist' (so not unconditional).

However, note the procedural requirement at the bottom

eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/…

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That Annex 7 sets out the rules for doing this

Note:
- requirement to immediately consult in the Jt Cte
- 1 month delay to start of measures, unless 'exceptional circumstances'

eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/…

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tl;dr COM should be sending an email to UK govt pretty soon about all this

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Simon Usherwood Profile picture
30 Jan
So, now we've all slept on it, a possibly less hot take

AZ/Art.16 mess highlights importance of UK being closely across EU/COM activity, because it will affect UK and there's no one permanently in place to look after UK interests

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UK is now a third country and so will always come after member states in political calculations.

Fortunate to have IE looking after Protocol, and Barnier to still be around, to unpick the situation last night, but might not apply to other situations

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Thus UK needs to maintain working links with all parts of COM to head off issues and make sure there's someone to phone if it does go wrong

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25 Jan
Looking for some graphical summaries of the TCA, and the process leading up to it?

Then feel free to use the ones I've been making

bit.ly/UshGraphicFold…

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In the weeks since the TCA has agreed, I've covered the timeline of what comes next:



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A stupidly big one about links to other treaties:



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21 Jan
Let's consider this for a bit, shall we?

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

tl;dr will be: completely counterproductive move by UK

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UK govt argues that EU office in London shouldn't have full diplomatic status, given its "specific character"

Practically, that means no protection under Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Protection

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That's the UK's call, as it is for all third parties: the entire system relies on external recognition of status, so no different in that regard

However, important to keep in mind various points

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14 Jan
Just to underline the key points of this: the TCA highlights the extent to which the UK remains entangled in a dense web of international commitments, post EU-membership
With several hundred references to over 110 multilateral commitments of various kinds, the UK will find that the control it was claiming to get back will be closely bound by an international system that's very different from 1973
Those commitments are mainly focused in trade (as you'd expect), but reach across the board, into health, food and human rights
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2 Jan
Thanks to the enlightened decision of @UniOfSurreyFASS to give us book tokens instead of an Xmas party, I will be reading lots of Dickens in 2021, since I've not done so before
Last year I read all the books in my pile that had got stuck there, so now that's done I'm trying something new this year

Since I've only ever read A Tale of Two Cities (London and Paris IIRC), I feel I should find out what the fuss is about

So one volume per month it is (hadn't appreciated quite how long they are)

You're very welcome to suggest what the second half of the year should include
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1 Jan
A new year, a new phase of Brexit, so a new graphic for you, looking at the timeline for the next decade of the TCA

PDF: bit.ly/UshGraphic65 Image
And I'll update for this once I had done the family New Year's Day walk

and now available with that update (and more)

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