UK withdrawal from the European Union: Legal and procedural issues

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Series Details March 2017
Publication Date March 2017
ISBN 978-92-846-0818-8
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Please note: Each In-Depth Analysis is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.Following the United Kingdom's referendum in June 2016, which delivered a majority vote in favour of the country leaving the European Union, a period of uncertainty has begun for both the UK and the EU. Although the process of withdrawing from the EU is outlined by Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, a number of issues remain unclear in practice, all the more so since there is no precedent of a Member State withdrawing from the Union.

This in-depth analysis considers the legal and procedural issues surrounding UK withdrawal, focusing in particular on the formal exit process under Article 50 TEU and the EU institutions' preparations for negotiations.

It also set out some possible templates for future EU-UK relations, as well as the details of existing frameworks for cooperation between the EU and third countries.

Source Link http://dx.publications.europa.eu/10.2861/244741
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European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: In-Depth Analysis, March 2017: UK withdrawal from the European Union: Legal and procedural issues http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2017/599352/EPRS_IDA(2017)599352_EN.pdf
ESO: Background information: The Brexit Negotiations: An Assessment of the Legal, Political and Institutional Situation in the UK (EPRS: In-Depth Analysis, March 2017) http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-brexit-negotiations-an-assessment-of-the-legal-political-and-institutional-situation-in-the-uk/
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