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EU law to impose sanctions on UK clears committee.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/uk-europe/news/meps-endorse-brexit-infringements-bill/The UK has a for a long time played fast and loose with the conditions laid out in the Withdrawal-Agreement from the EU.
* For example: The UK is by this treaty legally obligated to put certain checks and regulations in place, with regards to import/export between UK and EU. Except the UK refuses to implement these checks because it's cheaper.
* Additionally, the UK government has for about 2 years now continuously threatened to break the Withdrawal-Agreement, for reasons of nationalistic jingosim. Because they are incompetent and need a boogeyman. (Because the evil EU refuses to re-negotiate an international treaty that both sides have passed, signed and implemented 2 years ago.)
Under the Withdrawal-Agreement, the EU has the legal right to impose punitive measures, such as sanctions, against the UK, should it break the agreement. However the EU doesn't have the executive mechanism to enact these measures. Yet.
Lawmakers on the European Parliament’s Trade, Foreign Affairs and Constitutional Affairs Committee voted by 75 MEPs voted in favour, none against and six abstentions to adopt proposals by the European Commission that would allow the EU executive to impose restrictions on trade, investment or other activities if the UK was to breach certain agreed trading conditions.
A final plenary vote on the file will take place in November, with lawmakers hoping to finalise the law by early 2023.
The principal disagreement between the EU and the UK has been over the implementation of the Northern Ireland protocol, which imposed customs checks on goods travelling from Britain to the island of Ireland.
The UK has refused to implement customs checks, and the Westminster parliament is currently scrutinising a bill that would allow Liz Truss’s government to override the terms of the protocol unilaterally.
A final plenary vote on the file will take place in November, with lawmakers hoping to finalise the law by early 2023.
The principal disagreement between the EU and the UK has been over the implementation of the Northern Ireland protocol, which imposed customs checks on goods travelling from Britain to the island of Ireland.
The UK has refused to implement customs checks, and the Westminster parliament is currently scrutinising a bill that would allow Liz Truss’s government to override the terms of the protocol unilaterally.
Prepare for Spring 2023, when the british government will complain that the evil EU forces them to comply with a treaty that the UK demanded, that the UK willingly signed, and that the UK touted as a political win for themselves over the EU.