UK Johnson challenges the EU and 'rewrites' the Ireland Protocol
The European Commission announced this Wednesday that it will reactivate an infringement procedure against the United Kingdom that had been "frozen" and will launch two more files after the new law promoted by the British Prime Minister,
Boris Johnson
, to unilaterally modify what was agreed to Northern Ireland in the Brexit agreement.
The file that Brussels is going to reactivate -after having "frozen" it in March 2021- was launched at the time because London was not applying the agreement between the parties in relation to the certificates required for the movement of agri-food products.
Brussels is now going to send the United Kingdom a reasoned opinion, the second step of the infringement procedure and, in the event that London does not respond in a "satisfactory" manner, the EU could refer the matter to the Court of Justice of the EU, community sources warned. .
In addition, Brussels will launch two new procedures in response to London's failure to comply with the obligations on European sanitary and phytosanitary rules, in particular due to the lack of necessary controls and the lack of adequate personnel and infrastructure.
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