Month: July 2025

25/07/202525/07/2025

Food for thought: The Commission’s UK-EU SPS Agreement negotiating mandate

In this post, John Bell, LLM (Queen Mary University of London), former Schuman Trainee at the European Parliament, discusses the European Commission’s negotiating mandate for a UK-EU common sanitary and phytosanitary (“SPS”) area published on 16 July 2025 (“UK-EU SPS Agreement negotiating mandate”) and its significance for UK-EU relations law.

23/07/202523/07/2025

Charting a course for rights in the TCA

In this post, Jack Williams of Monckton Chambers discusses Advocate General Biondi’s recent Opinion in C-413/24 Vlaams Gewest v P&O Ferries EU:C:2025:490in which the Advocate General opines on whether the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (“TCA”) is capable of direct effect and whether it incorporates EU obligations upon which P&O can rely post Brexit.

21/07/202521/07/2025

Assimilated law update – summer 2025

On 17 July 2025, the UK government published the latest “Assimilated Law Parliamentary Report” (“Report”) and “Assimilated Law dashboard” for the period December 2024 to June 2025. The publications fulfil the statutory duties under section 17 of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (“2023 Act”) to publish frequent updates. In this post, Jack Williams of Monckton Chambers provides a brief overview of the Report and dashboard amendments.