The European Commission has today released a series of proposed contingency measures to help mitigate the expected disruption in certain sectors in a no-deal scenario at the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020. The proposed regulations cover areas where there are no alternative international fall-back arrangements in the absence of an agreement and where, according to the EU Commission, single operators themselves cannot take mitigating actions. The measures include basic air connectivity, aviation safety, basic road connectivity and fisheries and aim to ensure that, among other things, airlines could continue to fly and hauliers could continue to cross borders as usual between the UK and the EU for six months after 1 January 2021. There are also provisions to allow access to each other’s waters.
Some of the measures, such as on air and road connectivity and fisheries, are reciprocal in nature and so to be effective, would need the same provisions granted by the UK.
A list of the proposed measures is available here. The EU Commission’s page with guidance on Brexit can be found here.
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