Category: Trade: Services

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.

22/09/202222/09/2022

What is EFTA?

In this post, Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. rer. pol. h.c. Carl Baudenbacher, Partner Nobel Baudenbacher, Zurich/Brussels, Door Tenant Monckton Chambers, London, Visiting Professor at LSE, President of the EFTA Court 2003-2017 provides a summary of EFTA.

28/01/202128/01/2021

The United Kingdom-Switzerland trade agreements

In this post Peter Ungphakorn assesses the trade agreements between the United Kingdom and Switzerland.

19/01/202119/01/2021

Cambridge webinar on the TCA and EU Future Relationship Act

A recording is now available of the University of Cambridge’s webinar on the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (the TCA) and its domestic implementation via the EU (Future Relationship) Act 2020. The event was organised by members of Cambridge’s Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), Centre for Public Law (CPL) and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL). The presenters also included Monckton Chamber’s Jack Williams. A link to the webinar on youtube and a guide to presenters, topics and timings can be found below.