Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to paragraph 8 of The Windsor Framework: a new way forward, CP806, what the more than 1,700 pages of EU rules are; and if he will place copies of them in the Library of the House.
Answer
We have published the legal instruments that make up the Windsor Framework, which set out how the relevant EU rules are disapplied, and both the UK and EU will respectively take forward further legislative measures to translate those solutions into law. The legal text on the agrifood green lane, for example, lists the 67 EU rules which are disapplied there. Through these changes we have ensured that it is UK authorities which approve medicines for the whole UK market; that changes on alcohol duties and VAT rates on the installation of energy-saving materials apply UK-wide; ensure consumer parcels are moved without customs processes; allow plants, trees and seeds to be able to move under the same UK plant passport arrangements as for elsewhere in the UK; and for agrifood products in the green lane to meet UK food and drink safety standards.