Here you go folks!
Alternative arrangement for the Irish Border
Remember the TV advert where it's the battle of the little big Horn and Custer's mobile rings?
"It's reinforcements!" he cries and the Indians turn away
"And they'll be here Wednesday!"
The Indians attack
To save time this caveat blows the whole thing out of the water
"The key points set out in our Report are as follows:
• Working Alternative Arrangements should be fully up and running within three years, with the ability to implement some measures considerably sooner.
Fortunately we have all the time in the world....no pressure
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The key points set out in our Report are as follows:
• Working Alternative Arrangements should be fully up and running within three years, with the ability to implement some measures considerably sooner.
• Alternative Arrangements are available through harnessing existing technologies and customs best practice already in use around the world.
• New technology has a role to support policy, but any technology suggested for deployment in the first instance is already in use elsewhere.
• A one size fits all solution should be avoided; instead people and traders should be given the maximum possible choice of options.
• Enhanced Economic Zones, benefiting from relevant WTO exemptions, such as frontier traffic and national security, offer potentially valuable solutions which respect the realities of border and cross-border communities.
• A multi-tier trusted trader programme for large and medium sized companies should be introduced, with exemptions for the smallest companies.
• The use of transit in the general trading case to ensure no checks at the border.
• Building on the Single Epidemiological Unit, which currently exists on the Island of Ireland, we suggest a common Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) zone for the UK and the Island of Ireland. If the UK decided to diverge materially in SPS rules, it would be up to the Northern Irish executive and the Northern Ireland Assembly, after consultation with the Northern-South Ministerial Council and the British-Irish Council, whether to align with the Irish and EU regime or the rest of the UK.
• In the event no common regulatory areas can be achieved, transit for the general case would include Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) checks to be carried out by mobile units away from the border, building on the direction of
travel of EU regulation in this area, but seeking necessary derogations from the EU.
• A transitional adjustment fund paid for by the UK, to assist with the implementation of Alternative Arrangements on both sides of the Irish border for small businesses.
• A capacity building fund paid for by the UK, to support customs development for UK and IE governments. • An independent arbitration panel and a specialist committee to advise on implementation.
How many ifs, but and maybes can you put in one report?
This is a letter to Santa and it will only be it the post
for Three years?
Think tanks ain't what they used to be when I was on them, you had to have some semblance of a logical process at work between your ears, not just be capable of fabricating
"Duck billed platitudes" to order as they do now
Alternative arrangement for the Irish Border
Remember the TV advert where it's the battle of the little big Horn and Custer's mobile rings?
"It's reinforcements!" he cries and the Indians turn away
"And they'll be here Wednesday!"
The Indians attack
To save time this caveat blows the whole thing out of the water
"The key points set out in our Report are as follows:
• Working Alternative Arrangements should be fully up and running within three years, with the ability to implement some measures considerably sooner.
Fortunately we have all the time in the world....no pressure
Extract
The key points set out in our Report are as follows:
• Working Alternative Arrangements should be fully up and running within three years, with the ability to implement some measures considerably sooner.
• Alternative Arrangements are available through harnessing existing technologies and customs best practice already in use around the world.
• New technology has a role to support policy, but any technology suggested for deployment in the first instance is already in use elsewhere.
• A one size fits all solution should be avoided; instead people and traders should be given the maximum possible choice of options.
• Enhanced Economic Zones, benefiting from relevant WTO exemptions, such as frontier traffic and national security, offer potentially valuable solutions which respect the realities of border and cross-border communities.
• A multi-tier trusted trader programme for large and medium sized companies should be introduced, with exemptions for the smallest companies.
• The use of transit in the general trading case to ensure no checks at the border.
• Building on the Single Epidemiological Unit, which currently exists on the Island of Ireland, we suggest a common Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) zone for the UK and the Island of Ireland. If the UK decided to diverge materially in SPS rules, it would be up to the Northern Irish executive and the Northern Ireland Assembly, after consultation with the Northern-South Ministerial Council and the British-Irish Council, whether to align with the Irish and EU regime or the rest of the UK.
• In the event no common regulatory areas can be achieved, transit for the general case would include Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) checks to be carried out by mobile units away from the border, building on the direction of
travel of EU regulation in this area, but seeking necessary derogations from the EU.
• A transitional adjustment fund paid for by the UK, to assist with the implementation of Alternative Arrangements on both sides of the Irish border for small businesses.
• A capacity building fund paid for by the UK, to support customs development for UK and IE governments. • An independent arbitration panel and a specialist committee to advise on implementation.
How many ifs, but and maybes can you put in one report?
This is a letter to Santa and it will only be it the post
for Three years?
Think tanks ain't what they used to be when I was on them, you had to have some semblance of a logical process at work between your ears, not just be capable of fabricating
"Duck billed platitudes" to order as they do now
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