| Author (Corporate) | Council of the European Union, European Parliament |
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| Series Title | Official Journal of the European Union |
| Series Details | L 85I |
| Publication Date | 27/03/2019 |
| Content Type | Legislation |
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Summary: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 March 2019 on the continuation of two bilateral cooperation programmes involving Ireland and the United Kingdom following the UK's withdrawal from the Union. Further information: The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the Union occurs during the programming period 2014-2020 in which the UK is participating in fifteen programmes under the European territorial cooperation goal. Two of those programmes involve Northern Ireland, supporting peace and reconciliation and North-South cooperation under the "Good Friday Agreement" that the Union intends to continue even if the UK leaves the Union without a withdrawal agreement, namely the PEACE IV (Ireland-United Kingdom) programme and the United Kingdom-Ireland (Ireland-Northern Ireland-Scotland) programme. Background: In March 2017 the United Kingdom submitted notification of its intention to withdraw from the Union pursuant to Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union. This means that, if the Withdrawal Agreement is not ratified, the Unions’ primary and secondary law will cease to apply to the United Kingdom from 30 March 2019 [this has since been extended to 12 April]. The United Kingdom will then become a third country. The Commission Communication ‘Preparing for the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 30 March 2019: a Contingency Action Plan’ set out the contingency measures it plans to take if there is no withdrawal agreement in place on the withdrawal date. In that Communication, the Commission listed the actions it considered necessary while recalling that additional actions may be necessary at a later stage. |
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| Source Link | Link to Main Source https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.LI.2019.085.01.0001.01.ENG |
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| Subject Categories | Politics and International Relations |
| Subject Tags | Brexit |
| Keywords | Good Friday Agreement, Post-Brexit |
| Countries / Regions | Ireland, United Kingdom |
| International Organisations | European Union [EU] |
