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Britain will be forced to take drastic measures to keep the lights on in Northern Ireland if the UK moves away from Europe without an agreement, the government said on Friday.
In the latest set of technical advice issued to prepare UK companies and the general public for a "no deal", the government has warned that an agreement may not be reached to maintain the single market of the company. 39, electricity, which allows Northern Ireland to import electricity from the Republic of Ireland.
Ministers acknowledged that they could be led to adopt radical legal measures to reduce the demand for electricity and increase supply to ensure "the establishment of a generating capacity adequate "in Northern Ireland.
According to a Whitehall article published in July, thousands of electricity generators should be requisitioned at short notice and installed on barges in the Irish Sea. The document released Friday suggested that this emergency commissioning was not exaggerated.
The 29 technical opinions released on Friday covered a variety of areas from chemicals to copyright rules.
A technical note on rail transport warned that trains could cease to move between the UK and France, Belgium and the Netherlands after a disordered Brexit, if no bilateral agreement was reached between the Great And the Member States concerned.
To prevent some British trains from stopping in the aftermath of a tough Brexit, the government has announced that it will recognize EU licenses for a period of up to one year. at two years old. However, the government said that the European Commission's directives had made it clear that UK licensed operators would not be able to operate in the EU and that companies "would have to re-apply for a license of an operator in a country of the EU ".
A document detailing the changes to the copyright rules suggested that it would prohibit the British from accessing online entertainment such as Netflix and Spotify while traveling in the Member States of the United States. 39; EU.
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European citizens can currently access accounts created and based in one country while visiting other Member States. However, the technical note stated that "the Portability Regulation will cease to apply to UK nationals when traveling to the EU".
Another paper sought to determine the trade relationship between the United Kingdom and dozens of countries, including Canada, Japan and South Korea, which have concluded free trade agreements with the EU.
The government said it would try to replicate the EU's free trade agreements with these countries "as far as possible" and "as soon as possible" after March 29 of the year. next year to avoid the implementation of higher tariffs.
But the European Commission has already indicated that it would write to trading partners only to ask them to treat the UK as a member of the European Union once the post-transition is over. -Brexit in progress. This would only happen if there was an agreement on Brexit.
British Chambers of Commerce said the trade paper left a "lingering uncertainty" over the rules applicable after March 2019.
He also expressed concern that at this late stage of the Brexit process, there was still no technical note on the future status of EU nationals in the event of of non-agreement.
"All current directives and the timetable for the rollout of the European Settlement Scheme presuppose an agreement to be reached and an agreed transition period," said Hannah Essex, Co-Executive Director of the BCC.
The government has warned UK companies involved in a cross-border merger to finalize the transaction before the exit, as, in a scenario of lack of agreement, the merger would no longer be covered by the legislation. applicable.
British companies and limited liability companies established with their central administration or principal place of business in the EU may also have to restructure in some European jurisdictions.
The government said that, in the event of a disorderly Brexit, the UK would establish an independent stand-alone regime for chemicals, which would be based on the EU regulatory system in force .
Other reports by Josh Spero, Delphine Strauss and Sylvia Pfeifer
