Challenges of the Knowledge Society (May 2021)
EU-UK BREXIT AGREEMENT AND ITS MAIN LEGAL EFFECTS
Abstract
The United Kingdom withdrew from the European Union on 31 January 2020. On 29 March 2017, the UK practically initiated formally the withdrawal procedure, in accordance with Article 50 TEU, informing the European Council of its intention to leave the European Union. In less than three years, the UK ratified the Withdrawal Agreement, with the purpose that the Agreement would enter into force on 31 January 2020 and, implicitly, produce legal effects. Of all the consequences of this withdrawal, naturally, we will focus on those which have legal implications, being however closely related to all the other effects, about which a lot has been written, and it certainly will be written in the years to come.
