nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20201021-233450-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 201021s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20201021-233450-0 doi eng 342 23 Lang, Richard Author aut A Draft is no Infringement Why the EU Commmission’s Action Regarding the Internal Market Bill Is Inadmissable Lang, Richard Verfassungsblog 2020-10-21 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In the last few weeks, little more has been said about the infringement action launched by the Commission against the UK at the beginning of October for failure to fulfil obligations under EU law in relation to the Withdrawal Agreement.  However, not only has this not gone away, but the recent ratcheting up of ‘no deal’ tensions means that a claim may soon be made on the so-called insurance policy (the controversial clauses in the UK Internal Market Bill), turning the threatened breach into an actual one.  After the Bill becomes law, and assuming that the controversial clauses remain, a minister may use those clauses to pass a statutory instrument, for example, forbidding any checks to be carried out on goods travelling from Great Britain into Northern Ireland.  Some would argue that the threat is bad enough and itself justifies an infringement action.  That may be so.  However, the Commission’s action is still premature. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 brexit Infringement Procedure internal market bill Withdrawal Agreement Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/a-draft-is-no-infringement/ raw object