Is The Border Mentioned In The Good Friday Agreement

It could be argued that a hard border would go against the spirit of this part of the agreement, but here too there is no specific prohibition. In March 2019, the UK government announced that it would not carry out customs checks at the Irish border after a no-deal Brexit. [58] The plan was quickly called the “Smugglers` Charter,”[59][60][61][62][63][64] and was criticized for likely violating WTO rules. [59] [61] [64] [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] Local businesses have expressed serious concerns. [70] E&T (Engineering and Technology) published “Brexit and the UE borders: can technology help solve the problem?” (February 15, 18). This article discusses the new IT system that the UK wants to implement when it leaves the EU – the Customer Reporting Service (CDS), which “will operate at all UK ports and airports and at the Irish border”. The next two parts focus successively on two major weaknesses of the GFA that explain this difficulty. The second part will show that even though the CFA was a sign of a significant improvement in Anglo-Irish relations, facilitated by the European context, the CFA did not provide a definitive and consensual definition of the rights and obligations of Dublin and London as co-sovereign guarantor of the GFA. . . .

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