I'm formally Greenland.
Madiuxa Absolutely disagree with this, as someone who left Scotland (and the UK, if you like) in the wake of the idiotic Brexit mayhem. Of course a hypothetical independent Scotland could apply to join the EU, but this isn't necessary - Scotland only needs to rejoin the European Single Market, as Northern Ireland has been allowed to do. The Alba Party has come out today in pursuit of this - and I, as a Scot who has lived abroad (in the EU) for years applaud them for having common sense and for caring about Scottish people - which I am increasingly sure that the mainstream Scottish/UK parties do not.
What muddled up madness is this? Thats unworkable, for many reasons.
It would also prevent Scots from benefitting from the many human and fundamental rights that go along with EU membership, and EU funding for poorer areas, which Scotland has benefitted from significantly in the past. Agriculture wouldn't be included, so anything produced by Scottish farmers would be at a severe disadvantage to those within the EU. As an example, Scottish farmers would have to produce meat to exacting EU standards, and transport it there, without benefitting from the many financial incentives the EU gives to EU farmers.
I also don't think you have a clue about how EU competition law works. There are many pieces of Scottish legislation now that don't comply with EU single market rules because they breach the competition law articles 101 and 102 TFEU, so the Scottish Government would have to remove them in order to be EU-law compliant. There would probably have to be a widespread review of Scottish legislation.
The whole purpose of the single market is to open up the EU to competition from all member states, as competition benefits consumers. It is certainly not there to enable non-member states to trade freely in the EU as a market without a reciprocal gain for EU member states.
I honestly don't think you have the faintest clue what you're trying to talk about here. Ah yes but Norway you will cry. Norway doesn't want to join the EU and its few companies which export to the EU are penalised in ways which make their goods more expensive to produce. But Norway still has to comply with EU law. Norway also has to make a significant financial contribution to the furtherance of fundamental EU rights and values throughout the EU in return for limited EU market access. Generally, we talk about 3 out of the 4 EFTA member states as having this limited access to the EU in return for substantial payments and compliance with most EU law - Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway.
I can't see Scotland wishing to sign up to follow not only the ECHR but the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and EU competition law the minute it leaves the UK, as that is a much more restrictive regime to follow and a very expensive one.
The new Hate Crime bill would have to be scrapped for one thing, and minimum alcohol pricing (which hasn't been very effective anyway) but the way in which local authorities are set up and the control they have over the property market through the licensing system would also have to be changed, as well as the way in which contracts are handed out.