The brake, part of NI's Brexit deal, gives Stormont a conditional veto on new EU rules applying here.
A new EU carbon law could bring the Stormont brake, which is part of Northern Ireland's Brexit deal, into play for the first timeA major EU environmental policy could become a test of the Stormont brake, new analysis has suggested.It effectively gives the Northern Ireland Assembly a conditional veto on new EU rules applying here.
Northern Ireland has been without a functioning government since February 2022 when the DUP walked out of the first minister role in protest against the earlier Brexit deal known as the Northern Ireland Protocol.The brake can be triggered if 30 members of the assembly object to a new EU rule being applied in Northern Ireland.
Consultative mechanisms in the Windsor Framework are also supposed to mean that the EU and UK resolve issues around new rules so minimising the risk that the brake will have to be used. It is being introduced to ensure that European industry, which has to pay for permits to use carbon, can compete fairly in the manufacturing of those goods.
They have suggested it could have implications for trade both from Great Britain to Northern Ireland and from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland.
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