84 technical notices, starting Thursday

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Any predictions anybody?

Below are extracts from the Business Insider, about technical notices due for publication - I don't know what these will be but the example given on the BBC news was that for example, importers will need to be ready to pay VAT 3 months earlier, so it would seem these "technical notices" are preparations from the govt or from us that are necessary for a no deal Brexit.

The UK government's preparations for crashing out of the European Union with no deal cover 84 areas of British life, a new leak has revealed.

Theresa May's government will soon publish an array of technical notices for British businesses and households explaining what contingency plans the UK has in place in the event of a no deal Brexit.

These notices —which government sources insist will show the UK "will be ready" for the hardest of Brexits — come amid warnings that leaving the EU with no deal could trigger chaos, like a shortage in food and medicine

Air services
Animal breeding
Aviation safety
Aviation security
Batch testing of medicine
Blood safety
Broadcasting
Chemicals regulation
Civil judicial cooperation
Civil nuclear
Climate
Commercial road haulage
Common Travel Area
Company law
Competition
Consumer protection
Cross-border gas trading
Customs and borders
Data
Driver licensing
Drugs
e-Commerce and geo-blocking
Electricity trading
Environmental standards
Equine movements
Erasmus
EU citizens in the UK
EU programmes and structural funds
EU space programmes
European regional development fund
European social fund
Export control regulation
Fertilisers
Financial services
Firearms
Fisheries, fish and seafood
Fluorinated gases and Ozone depleting substances
Food labelling
Genetically modified organisms
Geographical indicators
Health and identification marks for products of animal origin
Horizon 2020
Imports of food and feed
Insolvency
Intellectual property
Life sciences
Live animals and animal products
Maritime security
Motor insurance
New car and van CO2 emissions
NGOs
Nuclear research
Objects of cultural interest
Oil and gas
Organic food production
Organs, tissue, and cells
Passports
Payments to farmers
Pesticides regulations
Pet travel
Plants and seeds
Procurement
Product regulation
Registration of veterinary medicines
Renewable electricity issues
Rural Development Programme for England
Seafarer certification
Services
State aid
Telecoms
Timber trade
Tobacco
Trade agreements continuity
Trade in endangered species
Trade remedies
Trans-European energy infrastructure
UK citizens in the EU
UK LIFE projects
UK trade tariff
Upholding industrial emissions
VAT
Vehicle standards
Veterinary medicine products
Workplace rights

Today's the day. It's also the day for the GCSE results to be released, Guess which will get more attention? Pictures of pretty girls jumping up and down in excitement at their results, or a headline about technical notices?

Timing not at all planned, of course, oh no!

BBC website has it as a headline saying 25 are due to be released today

Do we have a link to these notices yet?

This from the guardian has me worried, we’re in the EU but have savings in the UK......

www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/aug/23/britons-in-eu-could-lose-access-to-uk-bank-accounts-under-no-deal-brexit?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I haven't seen a link yet. I'm waiting for the food and households one. That will have the most impact on people since that's the only one we can really do much about.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-governments-preparations-for-a-no-deal-scenario

The UK government released the first batch of technical notices advising businesses and the public on how to prepare for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit.

Key points (from FX):

• Britain will create a subsidy control framework to ensure the continuing control of anti-competitive subsidies in a no-deal Brexit scenario.
• EU State aid rules will be transposed into UK law, mirroring existing block exemptions as allowed under the current rules.
• There will be some specific changes to the Value Added Tax (VAT) rules if Britain leaves the EU without a deal.
• Britain will introduce postponed accounting for import VAT on goods brought into the UK if it leaves the EU without a deal.
• UK authorities would seek to minimize delays and additional burdens for legitimate trade and ensure compliance if no deal.
• Companies should consider renegotiating commercial terms to reflect any changes in UK customs and exercise procedures, new tariffs.
• Customs declarations will be needed when EU Goods enter the UK or UK goods leave for EU.
• The carrier of goods would need safety and security declarations to move goods.
• UK banks in EU to default to member state rules in a no-deal event.
• Credit card payments likely to increase.
• Costs and processing time for euro transactions could increase.
• UK citizens in EU risk losing access to UK bank accounts.

Follow this on Twitter.

Interesting comment from the author and scary too....

"Britain would be more bureaucratic. The papers are replete with new regulatory regimes, doubling up of registration and extra processes for British business and consumers. This for example would be the new hurdles for UK importers/exporters to the EU. Currently there are none."

twitter.com/lewis_goodall

The Market's response:

www.bbc.com/news/topics/cx250jmk4e7t/pound-sterling-gbp

how come little gems like:

Pharmaceutical companies have been told to stockpile an extra six weeks' worth of medicine to ensure a "seamless" supply

are hidden amongst total non issues like

New picture warnings will be needed for cigarette packets as the EU owns the copyright to the current ones

???

Many pharmaceutical companies have already explained that they don't have the cash flow, the storage space or the access to pharmaceuticals to "stock pile" anything, when this was first suggested months ago.

and really, what is this sort of thing supposed to mean?

Companies should consider renegotiating commercial terms to reflect any changes in UK customs and exercise procedures, new tariffs.

This is basically saying things will change, we can't tell you when or how, but when they do, its up to you to deal with it.

Link works Andhow, thanks for that, I was looking for it and Google only gave me news outlets.

Yesterday's bbc headline was all about extra credit card charges for holiday makers in the EU. WTF, as if that's the most important issue.

When are the next ones due to be released?

What's funny about the credit card charge thing is that when the rule came in earlier this year TM made out it was a government initiative.

Now it's an EU controlled initiative that we will revoke when we don't even have to- we just chose to.

Isn't it all so simple - the easiest deal in history??? - er NO

Pharmaceutical companies have been told to stockpile an extra six weeks' worth of medicine to ensure a "seamless" supply

I don't know how likely this is, but what if some pharma companies decide that the cost of doing this is too high, or that will it is not practically possible? Does the government have plans to oblige them to do this?

I've been inclined to think that warnings of no insulin were overdone but right now I think that if I lived in the UK and relied on drugs I'd made sure I was out of the country on 29th March.

I'm normally only a lurker, and apologies if this has been posted already, but have you seen this.....

m.soundcloud.com/bbcradiokent/nodealbrexit-heated-debate

It makes me so angry that they do not have a clue what they are doing.

if I lived in the UK and relied on drugs I'd made sure I was out of the country on 29th March.

But won’t all the reciprocal health care agreements end too? What happens to travel insurance policies that span the 29th March?

With a 'no deal' situation there is a risk travel insurance becomes invalid. The only thing you can do is ask your insurer. Anything that involves cooperation between the UK and the EU has to be looked at individually and the fine print of contracts examined. The whole scenario is unprecedented and until the UK gov sign suitable paperwork which can clarify what will happen it is anyone's guess.

But won’t all the reciprocal health care agreements end too? What happens to travel insurance policies that span the 29th March?

That's a good question.

The point being that I'd rather be in a position to bankrupt myself buying essential healthcare privately than not getting it at all.

Where will those of us reliant on medication go? I can't magically live elsewhere.

Where has the press coverage gone? The silence is startling