Negotiating the future UK and EU relationship

Author: Iain McIver, Anna Brand, Damon Davies, Angus Evans, Filippo Fontanelli, Dr Eve Hepburn, Rebecca Bartlett

PDF Published: Friday 17 Jan 2020 (SB 20-07)

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- Executive Summary
- Context
- The Political Declaration on the future relationship
  - The economic partnership sets out the following ambitions:
  - The security partnership
- The process for negotiating the future relationship
  - The EU approach
    
    Key players
    
    EU priorities for the negotiations
  - The UK approach
    
    Key players
    
    UK priorities for the negotiations
  - Timing for the negotiations
- Role for the devolved administrations and legislatures in the future relationship negotiations
  - UK Government proposed policy approach to international negotiations
  - Scottish Government proposed policy approach to international negotiations
  - What's happened so far?
- Key areas of negotiation from a Scottish perspective
  - Level playing field and regulatory alignment
  - Agriculture
  - Fisheries
  - Food and drink PGIs
  - Services
  - Justice
  - Immigration
  - EU funding programmes
- Conclusions
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1 Most Favoured Nation; 2 Tariff Rate Quotas

Image: 1. Conclusions of FAPRI-UK Modelling Exercise to assess the impacts of post-Brexit trade agreements on agriculture.

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Image: 1. Conclusions of FAPRI-UK Modelling Exercise to assess the impacts of post-Brexit trade agreements on agriculture.

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