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Jurisdiction and legal structure 📜

10 members Last update 27 July

The EU has been keen to settle early on the question of dispute resolution after Brexit; if for instance, a trade agreement bound the UK not to subsidise its steel industry, who would decide if infrastructure spending around a plant amounted to subsidy? The EU's starting position was that the ECJ is its court, but Britain's (or at least May's) opening stance was that the ECJ would have no jurisdiction in the UK after Brexit. The final outcome commits the UK to paying 'due regard' to ECJ decisions