Once we've left the EU, we'll be an independent coastal state. We'll be free to make the most of new fishing opportunities in our own waters and protect our precious marine environment ?? https://t.co/0UCjHJDuqt
Asked by: Martyn Day (Scottish National Party - Linlithgow and East Falkirk)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what steps his Department plans to take to support UK companies contracted by the EU for work in relation to the Common Security and Defence Policy during the transition period of the UK leaving the EU.
Answered by James Duddridge
DExEU has organised over 700 recorded engagements with business and civil society stakeholders from every sector of the British economy since July 2016 and to date DExEU Ministers have attended over 120 roundtable meetings on a wide range of topics. The Department continues to engage with businesses as we approach exit day on 31 January.
Additionally, the UK will continue to participate in programmes funded under the current 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) until their closure. This means that the vast majority of programmes will continue to receive EU funding across the programme’s lifetime. In many cases, funding will continue until after 2020 and the end of the Implementation Period.
Government will continue to hold regular forums with intermediaries, trade associations and business organisations to support them through the transition period.
Asked by: Lord Morrow (Democratic Unionist Party - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether companies registered in Northern Ireland can continue to tender for EU Commission contracts during the implementation period.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Access to new procurement procedures during the implementation period will continue as normal. For any procedures ongoing at the end of the implementation period the existing regime will continue up to award. Therefore, companies registered in Northern Ireland will be able to continue to tender for EU Commission contracts during the implementation period as they do now.
Jan. 29 2020
Source Page: Agreement, done at London on 28 January 2020, between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Kingdom of Norway following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, the EEA Agreement and other arrangements applicable between the United Kingdom and the EEA EFTA States by virtue of the United Kingdom's membership of the European UnionJan. 29 2020
Source Page: Agreement, done at London on 28 January 2020, between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Kingdom of Norway following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, the EEA Agreement and other arrangements applicable between the United Kingdom and the EEA EFTA States by virtue of the United Kingdom's membership of the European UnionJan. 29 2020
Source Page: Agreement, done at London on 28 January 2020, between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Kingdom of Norway following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, the EEA Agreement and other arrangements applicable between the United Kingdom and the EEA EFTA States by virtue of the United Kingdom's membership of the European UnionJan. 29 2020
Source Page: Agreement, done at London on 28 January 2020, between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Kingdom of Norway following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, the EEA Agreement and other arrangements applicable between the United Kingdom and the EEA EFTA States by virtue of the United Kingdom's membership of the European UnionOnce we've left the EU, UK nationals can continue to live, work & study in Norway, Iceland & Liechtenstein much as they do now. Their citizens will have the same rights in the UK. Today @SteveBarclay signed the EEA EFTA Separation Agreement ?????? https://t.co/TY20uU2HQS https://t.co/feWaNupxUO
Jan. 28 2020
Source Page: UK and EEA EFTA States sign Separation AgreementAsked by: Lord Clement-Jones (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask Her Majesty's Government what mechanisms are proposed for mediating legal conflict with the Court of Justice of the European Union where companies are subject to both the jurisdiction of the EU and the UK.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Withdrawal Agreement brings about the end of the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the EU in Britain.The EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill makes clear that it is a matter for UK courts to determine UK law, and provides for legal clarity after the implementation period. It also provides for how UK courts must interpret relevant separation agreement law under our international obligations.
Companies will be subject to the court systems of the jurisdictions in which they operate, as normal.