Sentences with phrase «regulatory alignment»

«It means were talking about a political solution that allows for regulatory alignment in a way that prevents the need for border infrastructure,» he explained.

The paper covers criteria for access, mechanisms for maintaining regulatory alignment and dispute resolution.

That means no deal is off the table, at a minimum they have guaranteed staying in regulatory alignment as the absolute baseline, which is 90 % in the Single Market.

Q: When joint report in December said option C for the Irish border would involve maintaining full regulatory alignment, was that for the whole of the UK?

If the UK were able to accept regulatory alignment with Euratom after Brexit it could theoretically secure almost full access to the Nuclear Common Market through an Association Agreement with the Euratom Community.

For the Republic of Ireland, adopting a «soft border strategy» means holding fast to its insistence on regulatory alignment even at the cost of a long - term trade deal between the Republic (and the rest of the EU) and the UK.

If she accepts regulatory alignment for the whole of the UK, the Cabinet hawks revolt and she is finished.

TPP promotes the use of internationally accepted standards and acknowledges their role in supporting greater regulatory alignment and good regulatory practices.

In relation to Brexit the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, stated on Monday that the Irish question could be solved by regulatory alignment across the UK, implying support for continued membership of the single market and customs» union.

Mr Clarke, who was first up, welcomed the fact that the open border with Ireland will require regulatory alignment.

The latest attempt at regulatory alignment is on methane emissions for the oil and gas sector, with former President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (along with Mexico) agreeing to reduce this significant source of emissions.

«If one part of UK can retain regulatory alignment with EU and effectively stay in the single market (which is the right solution for Northern Ireland) there is surely no good practical reason why others can't,» Sturgeon said in a tweet.

It also stressed that a future trade pact, allowing for not just low or zero tariffs on goods but also regulatory alignment to promote trade in services, should not allow Britain to pick and choose which economic sectors to open up.

For the UK this means that the government would reject the DUP's position (potentially endangering its own majority in the commons) and agree to some kind of regulatory alignment between Northern Ireland and the Republic in order to achieve a soft border between the two.

The only viable solution to a hard border is continued regulatory alignment on goods and a customs union.

Moreover, Corbyn asked May a series of incisive questions about regulatory alignment after the phase - one agreement, and even suggested that we should extend Article 50, which Remainers like me have been advocating for months but which May is (for the moment) implacably against.

Ireland and Northern Ireland also already share common regulatory alignment (i.e. different from the rest of the UK) in a few areas, for example on phyto - sanitary matters, so there are already special arrangements in a number of areas for Northern Ireland.

How will financial services and other sectors be able to trade freely in Europe without regulatory alignment?

And when they got round the table yesterday morning Boris Johnson spoke out against it, telling Mrs May that he «would worry if regulatory alignment bound us into the EU».

Johnson said the model would also force the UK into close regulatory alignment with Europe.

«It only solves the Northern Ireland border question if you force companies to prove that an imported tariff - reduced good has been consumed in the UK and if you insist on complete regulatory alignment with the EU rule book,» he said.

Improving regulatory alignment and information sharing in this area — including on finding and fixing methane leaks while ending the wasteful practices of intentionally venting (directly releasing) and flaring (burning) methane emissions during energy commodity development can benefit all three countries.

The wording of the UK / EU joint report all but mandates Northern Ireland's - and therefore the UK's - membership of the single market and customs union, in that we must remain «in full regulatory alignment» in all areas pertaining to the Good Friday Agreement and all - Ireland economy.

In a text currently being worked on by negotiators, the UK is prepared to agree that there'll be «regulatory alignment» on market and customs rules between both sides of the Irish border, according to reports on Monday.

LONDON — Steve Rotheram has suggested that Liverpool and other northern city regions should be able to stay closely - wedded to EU markets after Brexit if the UK government goes ahead with plans for «regulatory alignment» between Northern Ireland and the EU.

The UK is less happy — it has to accept some regulatory alignment which will upset the DUP, but this may be worth it if it gets a final deal on trade that it is happy with (I've shown this by giving a score of 2 for Ireland and 1 for the UK in this case although, of course, the actual values of the scores is arbitrary — it is only their relative value that matters).

But this is politics, after all, and it seems likely there was a degree of co-ordination in all of this: within hours David Davis had told the House of Commons that «regulatory alignment» would apply to the whole of the UK, exactly what the Scottish Tory leader had set out in her statement.

Ireland is happy - it gets a soft border and regulatory alignment.

In her surprisingly strong statement issued yesterday morning, Davidson said last year's European referendum had not asked if the UK «should be divided by different deals for different home nations», going on to make it clear that if «regulatory alignment» in certain areas was required for a «frictionless border» in Ireland then she expected Theresa May to «conclude» that this must be on «a UK - wide basis».

There are only two possibilities here: the first, that she knows what she is doing and saying, which makes her cunning but unremittingly dishonest; or the second, that she is genuinely ignorant about the consequences of «full regulatory alignment», which makes her a believer in fiction over fact.

Third, we encounter the small issue of the phase one deal agreed twelve days ago, which requires «full regulatory alignment» with the single market and customs union on issues affecting the Good Friday Agreement and the all - island Irish economy.

Indeed, it can not spell out the meaning of the phase - one agreement it has already signed, with «full regulatory alignment» dismissed by ministers as just another soundbite to add to the «deep and special partnership» and «leaving the EU but not leaving Europe».

But it was Ed Miliband who addressed the crux of the government's contradiction: how the regulatory autonomy May was proclaiming could be reconciled with the regulatory alignment demanded by Friday's agreement.

Jeremy Corbyn, to his credit, struck some decent blows in his response, and asked particularly good questions about the precise nature of «full regulatory alignment».

As to «regulatory alignment», it's worth remembering that anyone who exports goods or services to another country has to abide by the rules of that other country and vice versa for imports.

With this joint agreement, an unfamiliar concept has found its way into the world's political lexicon: regulatory alignment.

No, the deal also rules out a border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, so any regulatory alignment here counts for all of us.

Of course the FTA can be far reaching, though the more it covers the more complicated the negotiation and the greater the regulatory alignment.

There's an exemption for countries like Switzerland or Norway which have full regulatory alignment but....

Reports suggest the UK government is prepared to accept «regulatory alignment» between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland «in the absence of agreed solutions».

That would leave May only one option, which is to extend the regulatory alignment from Northern Ireland across all of the UK.

Even this regulatory alignment solution doesn't add up to it.

There have been reports that Northern Ireland could retain «regulatory alignment» with the EU - although the final wording of any potential deal has not yet been confirmed.

Sounds like EEA membership has been guaranteed now as today the EU has said that it will require the regulatory alignment and citizen's rights to be guaranteed in writing.

Prime Minister needs to get the DUP leader on side after she scuppered hopes for agreement with the EU — but her own side say she should abandon «regulatory alignment» with Brussels

The withdrawal agreement includes a fall back position if the UK leaves without a deal, which proposes «full regulatory alignment» with the EU.

Mr Barnier said the UK has accepted the need to discus how to make «full regulatory alignment» work in practice, while the other options are discussed in parallel.

However a former Tory leader called on Mrs May to stop trying to win the unionist party over and drop the plan for so - called «regulatory alignment» — and walk away from talks if the EU insisted on it.

«She accepts in terms that, where the EU or UK choose to move away from regulatory alignment, that will come with consequent losses in access to each other's markets,» he said.