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The UK formally leaves the European Union (EU) at 23:00 on Friday, 31 January. However it is going to instantly enter an 11-month transition interval.
Through the transition the UK will proceed to obey EU guidelines and pay cash to the EU. Most issues will keep the identical however there shall be some adjustments:
1. UK MEPs lose their seats
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The Brexit Social gathering received probably the most UK seats within the Could 2019 European elections
Acquainted faces akin to Nigel Farage and Ann Widdecombe are among the many UK’s 73 MEPs who will robotically lose their seats within the European Parliament.
That is as a result of, for the time being of Brexit, the UK will go away the entire EU’s political establishments and companies.
Nevertheless, along with the UK following EU guidelines in the course of the transition interval, the European Court docket of Justice will proceed to have the ultimate say over authorized disputes.
2. No extra EU summits
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson must be specifically invited if he desires to hitch different leaders at EU Council summits sooner or later.
British ministers will even now not attend common EU conferences that determine issues akin to fishing limits.
3. We shall be listening to rather a lot about commerce
The UK will have the ability to begin speaking to nations around the globe about setting new guidelines for purchasing and promoting items and providers.
It has not been allowed to carry formal commerce negotiations with nations just like the US and Australia whereas it remained an EU member. Brexit supporters argue that having the liberty to set its personal commerce coverage will enhance the UK’s economic system.
There’s additionally rather a lot to be mentioned with the EU. Agreeing a UK-EU commerce deal is a high precedence, so further fees on items and different commerce obstacles aren’t wanted when the transition ends.
If any commerce offers are reached, they will not have the ability to begin till the transition interval ends.
4. The UK’s passports will change color
Blue passports have been changed in 1988 with the burgundy design
Blue passports shall be making a return, greater than 30 years after they have been changed by the present burgundy design.
Asserting the change in 2017, then Immigration Minister, Brandon Lewis, praised the return to the “iconic” blue-and-gold design, first utilized in 1921.
The brand new color shall be phased in over quite a lot of months, with all new passports issued in blue by the center of the yr.
Current burgundy passports will proceed to be valid.
5. Brexit cash
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The cash needed to be re-made after Brexit was delayed
About three million commemorative 50p Brexit cash bearing the date “31 January” and the inscription: “Peace, prosperity and friendship with all nations”, will enter circulation on Friday.
The coin has received a mixed reaction, with some Stay supporters saying they’ll refuse to simply accept it.
The federal government had deliberate to introduce the same coin on 31 October, the date Brexit was beforehand meant to occur.
Nevertheless, these cash needed to be melted down and recycled after the deadline was prolonged.
6. The UK’s Brexit division shuts down
The group that dealt with the UK-EU negotiations and no-deal preparations will disband on Brexit day.
The Division for Exiting the European Union was arrange by former Prime Minister Theresa Could in 2016.
For the upcoming talks, the UK’s negotiating group shall be primarily based in Downing Road.
7. Germany will not extradite its residents to the UK
It will not be potential for some suspected criminals to be introduced again to the UK in the event that they flee to Germany.
Germany’s structure doesn’t enable its residents to be extradited, except it is to a different EU nation.
“This exception can’t apply anymore after the UK has left EU,” a spokesman from the German Federal Ministry of Justice informed BBC Information.
It is unclear if the identical restrictions will apply to different nations. Slovenia, for instance, says the scenario is sophisticated, whereas the European Fee was unable to offer remark.
The UK House Workplace says the European Arrest Warrant will proceed to use in the course of the transition interval. (Meaning Germany will have the ability to extradite non-German residents.)
Nevertheless, it provides that if a rustic’s legal guidelines forestall extradition to the UK it “shall be anticipated to take over the trial or sentence of the particular person…