Brexit

Resetting the UK-EU Relationship

A Path to Stabilizing the Chemical Supply Chain

EU Bodies Ratify UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement

With a positive vote of both the European Parliament and the Council at the end of April, the EU has ratified the Trade and Cooperation Agreement establishing the terms for future cooperation with the UK. To minimize disruption, the agreement has been provisionally applied since the beginning of 2021.

Changes in Trade with the United Kingdom

On Dec. 31, 2020, the UK will leave the EU single market and customs union. Regardless of any agreement reached with the EU, the end of the Brexit transition period will affect citizens, businesses, as well as travel between the UK and EU. Therefore, businesses need to prepare themselves for the upcoming changes.

UK Chemicals Steady in Q2, Uncertainty Ahead

UK chemical exports in the second quarter of this year have steadied but uncertainty looms for the rest of 2020 with risks from both Covid-19 and Brexit, said the Chemical Industries Association (CIA).

UK Won’t Join EU Vaccine Purchase Plan

The UK will not participate in a plan to distribute a potential coronavirus vaccine to Europe’s most vulnerable citizens first. Tim Barrow, the UK’s ambassador to the EU, said in a letter to the European Commission the British government would not join the effort because as a non- EU member it would have no decision-making power in negotiations about purchases.

Future-Relationship Negotiations between the EU and the UK

EU Said Moving Toward Plastic Waste Tax

UK Chemical Industry Lobs Ball to new PM

EP Wants to Keep Budget for UK in 2020

Brexit Drug Shortage Threat Still Acute

Chemicals and a No-Deal Brexit

Industry Appeals again to Avoid Brexit Plunge

EMA Opens in Amsterdam

UK Business “Hung out to Dry” on Brexit

German Chemical Producers Want Brexit Plan

European Chemical Industry Warns of Hard Brexit

Chemical Industry Welcomes Brexit Deal but Holds its Breath

Ineos Backs Brexit Deal

CEFIC Pleased With Draft Brexit Deal

UK Committee Calls for Clarity on REACH

France and Germany plan for hard Brexit

England’s NHS sets Brexit Ultimatum

EMA cuts Activities on Higher Staff Losses

Brexit is Costly, UK Drugmakers say

Recipharm Works to Soften Brexit Impact

Exports Drive UK Chemicals Growth in Early 2018

Brussels Pushes for UK Environment Compliance

Avoid “Hard Brexit,” German Association Says

GSK Sees £70 million Short-term Brexit Cost

CIA and Cefic Urge UK-EU Partnerships post-Brexit

Making Brexit Work for the Chemical Industry

German Chemicals Confident but Cautious

UK Life Science Boom despite Brexit?

UK Chemical Companies Start to Fear the Worst with Brexit

Ireland’s Thriving Pharma and Chemicals Producers Optimistic about Brexit