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Brexit: Northern Ireland

Question for Department for Exiting the European Union

UIN 198364, tabled on 3 December 2018

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, on what date the texts (a) Annex 2, (b) Annex 4, (c) Annex 8, (d) Article 6(1), (e) Article 12(1) and (f) Article 15 of the Northern Ireland Protocol in the Withdrawal Agreement were finalised.

Answered on

10 December 2018

Following intense negotiations on the Northern Ireland Protocol in the preceding weeks and months, the Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, including all of the annexes in question, was published on 14 November and the final version was agreed at a special European Council on 25 November 2018.

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