The new set of rules for trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland has entered into force

The conservative British government and the European Commission reached an agreement at the end of February on the agreement renamed the Windsor Framework Agreement. Based on this, Northern Ireland remains in a harmonized system of trade relations with the single internal market and customs union of the European Union, but the framework agreement significantly eases the burden of customs law on trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

One of the main simplifications of the new regulations valid from Sunday is that those products delivered from Great Britain, whose final destination is Northern Ireland – so they are guaranteed not to be transferred to the Republic of Ireland, i.e. the internal market of the EU – can enter the territory of Northern Ireland via a “green corridor” without customs bureaucracy.