Joint Committee Meets Ahead Of Trusted Trader Scheme Implementation In NI

The EU-UK Joint Committee that oversees the implementation of the Windsor Framework meets today ahead of a major milestone in the enacting of said framework coming up on 1 October. The start of next month will see the 'trusted trader' system implemented in Northern Ireland related to goods imported from Great Britain. At ports a 'green lane/red lane' scheme will come into force that is intended to reduce bureaucratic checks on goods from GB that have NI as their end-point.

• Neither UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly nor European Commission VP Maros Sefcovic are expected at the Joint Committee. Relations between the EU and UK on issues surrounding Brexit remain largely cordial, in contrast to the frostier state of affairs while Boris Johnson and Liz Truss sat in 10 Downing St.
• The previous customs arrangement, where NI remained in the EU single market, was seen as a threat to the Good Friday Agreement in that it created a customs border between GB and NI. If the new scheme can appease both nationalists and unionists in NI a major Brexit stumbling block will have been removed.