Brexit – end of transition period
Brexit – end of transition period
19 February 2020
11:00pm GMT on 31 December 2020 (midnight in Brussels), unless extended at the UK’s request in June 2020, the transition period provided for in the Withdrawal Agreement will expire and EU law will cease to apply in the UK, although most of it will be translated immediately into UK law through the operation of the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018. At this point, either the terms of the new free trade agreement entered into between the UK and EU will be applied (provisionally, if necessary) or, if that is for any reason not ready, UK-EU trade will revert to basic World Trade Organisation terms.
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