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State aid under the Northern Ireland Protocol

George Peretz QC and Alfred Artley (Monckton Chambers) explain the protocol’s state aid provisions, and their significance not only for Northern Ireland but also for the UK as a whole.

Following a short inquiry into the UK’s level playing field commitments and state aid regime post-Brexit the House of Lords EU Internal Market Sub-Committee recently wrote to the Business Minister Paul Scully MP. Setting out a series of detailed questions to the government the sub-committee expressed particular concern about the state aid provisions of the Northern Ireland Protocol:

‘It is troubling that no one we heard from thought that the UK government had a clear understanding of what state aid provisions it had signed up to in the Protocol and that the regions and devolved nations we heard from were not clear on how the Protocol might affect them. How is the UK government working...

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