Mrs May`s agreement consists of the withdrawal agreement and the political declaration. The Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, officially titled the UK`s withdrawal agreement from Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community. is a treaty signed on 24 January 2020 between the European Union (EU), Euratom and the United Kingdom (UK) [5] which sets the conditions for the UK`s withdrawal from the EU and Euratom. The text of the treaty was published on 17 October 2019[6] and is a renegotiated version of an agreement published six months earlier. The previous version of the withdrawal agreement was rejected three times by the House of Commons, leading Queen Elizabeth II to accept Theresa May`s resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and appoint Boris Johnson as the new Prime Minister on 24 July 2019. Sky News explains what covers each element of the agreement. A future fisheries agreement has not yet been adopted. Both sides are working to achieve this result until July 1, 2020. The difference between the withdrawal agreement between the EU and the UK and trade and other relations in the future, for now only a draft political declaration, is the difference between a legally binding “divorce agreement” and, on the other hand, a somewhat more imprecise statement of future intentions – a kind of pre-Nup that cannot be applied in the courts – on the other hand. On 19 October, a statement was also made to Parliament that a political agreement had been reached. On 20 December 2019, after the Conservatives won the 2019 British general election, the House of Commons passed second reading of the withdrawal agreement with a 358-234 lead. Following the amendments proposed by the House of Lords and the ping-pong between the two houses, the bill was granted royal approval on 23 January 2020, allowing ratification on the British side.

[39] The immigration regulations, including the settlement system, are also included in the agreement. On 23 March 2018, EU and UK negotiators reached an agreement on the draft withdrawal agreement allowing the European Council (Article 50) to adopt guidelines for the framework for future eu-UK relations. After an unprecedented vote on 4 December 2018, MEPs ruled that the UK government was not respecting Parliament because it refused to give Parliament full legal advice on the consequences of its proposed withdrawal terms. [29] The focus of the consultation was on the legal effect of the “backstop” agreement for Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom with regard to the CUSTOMS border between the EU and the United Kingdom and its impact on the Good Friday agreement that led to the end of the unrest in Northern Ireland, including whether , according to the proposals, the UK would be certain that it would be able to leave the EU in a practical sense. The UK will withdraw from the Euratom Atomic Energy Treaty. But a future agreement will involve a large-scale cooperation agreement. The declaration obliges both parties to draw up a plan for the border on the island of Ireland, so that there are no customs posts or obstacles. Therefore, the proposed new approach is not that of “dynamic rapprochement” in Mrs May`s withdrawal agreement (i.e. with the UK, which does comply with EU environmental standards), but a concept of `non-regression` (i.e. the UK will not lower its environmental standards, but will not be obliged to sign future EU environmental standards).