Legal Implications of Brexit: Customs Union, Internal Market Acquis for Goods and Services, Consumer Protection Law, Public Procurement

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The analysis takes the fully-fledged EU membership as a point of departure and compares this baseline scenario to a membership of the UK in the European Economic Area (EEA), the application of tailor-made arrangements, as well as the fall-back scenario, in which the mutual relationship is governed by WTO law.

Following an analysis of the EU legal framework defining the withdrawal of a Member State from the EU the study develops an analytical framework that allows for the identification of the legal impact of different Brexit scenarios on policy fields falling within the ambit of the IMCO Committee of the European Parliament. In this context, the general impact of the EEA model, the tailor-made model and the WTO model on key pieces of the currently existing acquis communautaire in these policy areas are highlighted.

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, August 2017: Legal Implications of Brexit: Customs Union, Internal Market Acquis for Goods and Services, Consumer Protection Law, Public Procurement http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2017/607328/IPOL_STU(2017)607328_EN.pdf

ESO: In Focus: Brexit - The United Kingdom and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/brexit-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union/

ESO: Background information: The Consequences of Brexit for the Customs Union and the Internal Market Acquis for Goods (EPRS: Briefing, June 2017) http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-consequences-of-brexit-for-the-customs-union-and-the-internal-market-acquis-for-goods/

ESO: Background information: Leaving the European Union: Customs Unions - An Introduction (UK: House of Lords: Library: Library Note LLN 2017/0007 (27.01.17)) http://www.europeansources.info/record/leaving-the-european-union-customs-unions-an-introduction/

European Commission: DG GROWTH: Brexit – guidance to stakeholders on impact in the field of public procurement, January 2018 http://ec.europa.eu/growth/content/brexit-%E2%80%93-guidance-stakeholders-impact-field-public-procurement_en

European Commission: DG GROWTH: Notice to stakeholders - Withdrawal of the United Kingdom and EU rules in the field of industrial products, January 2018 https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/27241

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