As part of our work with the UK Trade and Business Commission, we produced a list of 114 recommendations to help solve some of the major problems with the Brexit deal first signed in 2020. Since publishing, 47 of those recommendations have been adopted - here's the full list.
- Create a council for the UK and EU to work together on regulations, making trading easier.
- Agree to meet with the EU every year to discuss regulations and protect the Windsor Framework.
- If the UK decides not to follow EU regulations, assess the cost and timeframe of doing so, and consult with the EU.
- Commit to high food standards matching those in the EU, making it easier for UK producers to sell into Europe.
- Strengthen UK controls over chemicals in food, matching EU standards.
- Match EU rules on pesticide safety to protect consumers.
- Closely monitor residues of substances like pesticides and veterinary medicines in food, matching EU standards.
- Make sure all food imported into the UK meets the same high standards as food produced here.
- Commit to not lowering standards on food safety, animal welfare or the environment in order to strike new trade deals.
- Negotiate an SPS agreement with the EU, boosting trade for farmers, producers and fishers, and choice for consumers.
- Keep the same organic food standards and rules as the EU to make trading easier.
- Work with the EU to monitor and enforce high organic food standards across the board.
- Take a leading role in the setting of international standards, especially where it's in the UK's interests to do so.
- Agree to regular communication with the EU on chemical safety to protect public health.
- Make sure the UK's national standards body (BSI) keeps its place in the European system for setting standards.
- Agree a deal with the EU to link our emissions trading systems, helping drive down costs.
- Secure mutual exemptions from respective Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) schemes, reducing costs and red tape for UK and EU businesses.
- Set up clear reporting for the UK CBAM and regularly update it to stay in line with the EU system.
- Work together with the EU on future carbon tax decision making process’.
- Continue the ban on market manipulation and insider trading in the UK and EU energy markets, keeping prices lower and fairer.
- Work alongside the EU to develop greater energy security and to tackle climate change.
- Develop new renewable energy sources in the North Sea.
- Collaborate with the EU on net zero targets and the research and investment needed to achieve them.
- Share ideas and best practices for tackling climate change with the EU.
- Match the EU's health and safety protections and environmental standards.
- Rejoin the Horizon research programme.
- Work towards rejoining the Erasmus+ programme, allowing UK students and academics to work, train and study in the EU and vice versa.
- Maintain high data protection standards so that data flows between the UK and EU can continue.
- Recognise each other's professional qualifications, making it easier for British professionals to work in the EU and vice versa.
- Work with regulatory bodies to make sure the UK and EU can easily recognise each other's professional qualifications.
- Create a visa scheme so young Brits can live, work and study more easily in the EU, and young Europeans can do the same in the UK.
- Agree to regularly review the number of young people involved in the Youth Experience Scheme.
- Agree to regularly review the fiscal requirements for the Youth Experience Scheme.
- Work together with the EU to support the travel of artists across Europe.
- Work together with the EU to make it easier for workers travelling on business to stay where they are required for a short period of time.
- Work together with the EU to make it easier for workers to be involved in longer-term projects in each others' countries.
- Begin conversations with the EU to make it easier for short-term and freelance workers to get visas for each others' countries.
- Set out a roadmap for the future of the UK-EU relationship and agree to meet regularly.
- Explore how the UK and EU can work together across different policy areas and agencies, such as cross-border crime and terrorism.
- Extend the EU's rule of origin grace period for electric cars, cutting costs and cutting red tape.
- Reduce non-tariff barriers for fishers, making it easier for them to sell their produce into the EU.
- Deepen existing trading relationships with key partners and strike new ones to boost the economy.
- Give MPs the opportunity to vote on the UK-EU deal in Parliament.
- Develop a UK trade strategy which recognises the importance of negotiation and trade-offs in reaching agreements.
- Carry out regional level breakdowns of the impact of the new UK-EU deal across the UK.
- Deliver stable funding schemes for small UK businesses so that they can improve their trade with the EU and drive economic growth.
- Help smaller UK companies overcome trading barriers with the EU, particularly those who lack the resources to deal with extra red tape.