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  United Kingdom Internal Market Bill - Exclusions from Market Access Principles
  
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  @ MP voted aye against broader exemptions to the "market access principles" intended to ensure a free internal market within the United Kingdom, and not prioritise rules agreed by the four nations of the United Kingdom over those principles. 
  
  @ MP voted no against for broader exemptions to the "market access principles" intended to ensure a free internal market within the United Kingdom, and to prioritise rules agreed by the four nations of the United Kingdom over those principles. 
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted not to prioritise rules agreed by the four nations of the United Kingdom via the "common frameworks process" over the "market access principles" intended to ensure a free internal market within the United Kingdom and against additional exemptions from the "market access principles". 
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted against broader exemptions to the "market access principles" intended to ensure a free internal market within the United Kingdom, and not prioritise rules agreed by the four nations of the United Kingdom over those principles. 
  
  MPs were considering the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill[1][2]. 
  
  The motion supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :That this House disagrees with Lords amendments 1F, 1G, 1H, 1K, 1L and 8M.
  
  Lords amendment 1F[3] which would have impacted Clause 10 of the Bill stated:
  
  :"Page 7, line 23, at end insertââ( ) The Secretary of State must by regulations under subsection (2) exclude the application of the United Kingdom market access principles to a statutory provision or requirement that gives effect to a decision to diverge from harmonised rules that has been agreed through the common frameworks process.â"
  
  Lords amendment 1G[3] which would have impacted Clause 15 of the Bill stated:
  
  :Page 9, line 27, at end insertâ
  :â( ) âCommon frameworks processâ means the process, established by the Joint Committee on European Negotiations, by which a measure of regulatory consistency to enable a functioning internal market within the United
  Kingdom may be mutually agreed between the United Kingdom and the devolved governments.â
  
  Clause 10 of the Bill[4] provided for exclusions from the "market access principles" and Clause 15 contained definitions of terms used in that part of the Bill including Clause 10. Amendments 1F and 1G sought to prioritise rules agreed by the four nations of the United Kingdom via the "common frameworks process" over the "market access principles" intended to ensure a free internal market within the United Kingdom provided for in the Bill. 
  
  Lords amendment 1H[3] which would have impacted Clause 17 of the Bill stated:
  
  :Page 12, line 42, at end insertâ
  â( ) The Secretary of State must by regulations under subsection (2) add the services referred to in a statutory provision or requirement that gives effect to a decision to diverge from harmonised rules that has been agreed
  through the common frameworks process to the authorisation requirements in Part 3 of Schedule 2 or the list of regulatory requirements, as the case may be, to which section 18 (mutual recognition) or sections 19 and 20 (non-discrimination) do not apply.
  
  Clause 17 of the Bill related to the exclusions from the United Kingdom Internal Market for services. The rejected amendment would have required ministers to bring exemptions from the "market access principles" into line with rules agreed by the four nations of the United Kingdom via the "common frameworks process". 
  
  Lords amendment 1K[3] which would have impacted Clause 25 of the Bill stated:
  
  :Page 19, line 24, at end insertâ
  :â( ) The Secretary of State must by regulations subject to the affirmative resolution procedure exclude the application of section 22(2) to a provision which has been agreed through the common frameworks process.â
  
  Clause 25 of the Bill[4] related to exceptions to the United Kingdom Internal Market for professional qualifications and regulation. The rejected amendment sought require a minister to propose laws to Parliament providing for arrangements agreed by the four nations of the United Kingdom via the "common frameworks process" to be excluded from the general principles of the United Kingdom Internal Market. 
  
  Lords amendment 1L[3] which would have impacted Clause 27 of the Bill stated:
  
  :Page 21, line 19, at end insertâ
  :ââcommon frameworks processâ means the process, established by the Joint Committee on :European Negotiations, by which a measure of regulatory consistency to enable a functioning :internal market within the United Kingdom may be mutually agreed between the United Kingdom :and the devolved governments;
  
  Clause 27 of the Bill[4] provided for the definition of terms used in that part of the Bill. 
  
  Lords amendment 8M[3] which would have impacted Schedule 1 of the Bill stated:
  
  :Page 48, line 47, at end insertâ
  â5A (1) The United Kingdom market access principles do not apply to, and sections 2(3) and 5(3) do not affect the operation of, any requirements whichâ
  :(a) make a contribution to the achievement ofâ
  :(i) environmental standards and protection, or
  :(ii) protection of public health,
  :(b) are a proportionate means of achieving that aim, and
  :(c) are not a disguised restriction on trade.
  :(2) For the purposes of subparagraph (1)(b), a requirement is considered disproportionate if the aim being pursued in the destination part of the United Kingdom is already achieved to the same or a higher extent by requirements in the originating part of the United Kingdom.â
  
  This rejected amendment would have added a further, list of exemptions from United Kingdom Internal Market principles. These exemptions were broader than those already in the Bill. 
  
  
  
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  * [1] [https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2775 Parliament's webpage on the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill], Parliament.uk
  * [2] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-01/0177/en/20177en.pdf Explanatory notes to the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill, 9 September 2020], Parliament.uk
  * [3] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-01/0230/200230.pdf Lords amendments to the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill, 15 December 2020], Parliament.uk
  * [4] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/58-01/135/5801135_en_1.html United Kingdom Internal Market Bill, as introduced to the House of Lords, 30 September 2020], Parliament.uk
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