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<p>The UK Government is committed to taking the necessary steps to uphold the UK's
international obligations, including the Withdrawal Agreement and the Windsor Framework,
as set out in the previous answer. As also set out, all of the rules disapplied are
set out in the legal texts published as part of the Windsor Framework. By the EU's
own calculations, less than 3 percent of EU rules apply - with those that remain only
applying to secure maximum free trade and market access for Northern Ireland firms.
It should also be recognised that this is not a straightforward list, as some of those
rules will be applied in part for the red lane but not applied in the green lane,
for example. But, for example:</p><p>- Annex 1 of the Sanitary and Phytosanitary legal
text shows that 67 rules on food and drink do not apply in the green lane - covering
issues like marketing standards, food supplements and additives, and the production
of organic products. It also disapplies the certification requirements in the EU Official
Controls Regulation, as well as the prohibitions on various movements set out therein.</p><p>-
Requirements in the Union Customs Code (UCC) for rules of origin certificates, tariffs,
and commodity codes for each movement do not apply for internal UK trade; nor are
there any requirements for customs declarations for consumer parcels, which are classified
automatically as "not at risk". And we have secured unfettered access by
removing any need for export declarations or equivalent information for goods moving
from Northern Ireland to Great Britain as would otherwise have been set out in the
UCC.</p><p>- In a similar vein, and as noted previously, the requirements in the VAT
Directive which prevented the zero-rating of energy-saving materials has been disapplied,
enabling the changes we brought forward in Parliament this week; as have limits on
alcohol duty structures in EU rules harmonising excise duty structures.</p><p>- And
for medicines we have disapplied any role for the European Medicines Agency in authorising
medicines for the UK market, as otherwise set out in EU rules on the authorisation
and supervision of medicinal products; and removed packaging any other requirements
in the Falsified Medicines Directive.</p><p>These changes have safeguarded Northern
Ireland's place in the Union and our internal market, while continuing to support
Northern Ireland's businesses by providing them access to the whole UK market as well
as the EU market.</p>
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