What Lord Frost describes is not just the EU approach - but also the traditional UK approach. Indeed, the FC(D)O lays implementing legislation to parliament before ratification precisely for this reason - and the UK then becomes less flexible.
https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1417132794254344194
In fact, it describes normal treaty processes and a long-term reality of treaty law: there's lots of discussions about treaty-making, but once made treaties are relatively inflexible. /2
Treaty parties are trying to change this to some extent - which is why they establish treaty bodies with powers to change the content of the treaty a bit. But this comes with its own downsides. /3
Namely democratic legitimacy: now the treaty is more flexible. But who scrutinizes what was agreed? Should parliaments have a look at it? Must they have a look at it? But if we tie things back to Parliament, don't we become inflexible again? /4
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