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.TCA Article 7 (Draft TCA, Article Inst.1), It has several governing tasks within the TCA and supplementing agreements between the UK and the EU (Articles 2 and 7.2). Each party to the agreement can refer to the Council any issue relating to the implementation, application and interpretation of the TCA. The council has – in the first years – the power to amend certain parts of the TCA "provided that such amendments are necessary to correct errors, or to address omissions or other deficiencies", and has the ability to delegate certain of its powers to the Trade Partnership Committee or to a Specialised Committee. The Council comprises representatives of the EU and of the UK, and is co-chaired by a member of the

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. The draft EU Council decision on the signature of the TCA provides for the right of each member state to be represented in Partnership Council meetings as part of the EU delegation. It meets at the request of the EU or the UK, and at least once a year, with the agenda set by mutual consent. The council is separate from the conflict handling mechanism through an arbitration procedure Article INST.9-20 in the draft TCA.

Agreements covered by the Council

The council has a role in the TCA and other "supplementing agreements", unless otherwise provided. The agreements in which a role for the council is established are shown below:

Schema of the EU-UK institutional framework

Secretariat

The Secretariat will be composed of an official of the EU and an official of the Government of the UK. It will perform the tasks conferred in the Rules of Procedure; in particular, it will take care of the administrative tasks such as correspondence between the EU and UK, agendas and minutes. The official languages will be the official languages of the EU and the UK; the working language will be English.

Committees and Working Groups

Articles 8 and 9 establish 19 committees and 4 Working groups. Together with the council itself and its secretariat the following (sub)organisations exist. * Partnership Council ** Secretariat of the Partnership Council ** Trade Partnership Committee ** Trade Specialised Committee on Goods ** Trade Specialised Committee on Customs Cooperation and Rules of Origin ** Trade Specialised Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures ** Trade Specialised Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade *** Working Group on Organic Products *** Working Group on Motor Vehicles and Parts *** Working Group on Medicinal Products ** Trade Specialised Committee on Services, Investment and Digital Trade ** Trade Specialised Committee on Intellectual Property ** Trade Specialised Committee on

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** Trade Specialised Committee on Regulatory Cooperation ** Trade Specialised Committee on Level Playing Field for Open and Fair Competition and Sustainable Development ** Trade Specialised Committee on Administrative Cooperation in VAT and Recovery of Taxes and Duties ** Specialised Committee on Energy ** Specialised Committee on Air Transport ** Specialised Committee on Aviation Safety ** Specialised Committee on Road Transport ** Specialised Committee on Social Security Coordination *** Working Group on Social Security Coordination ** Specialised Committee on Fisheries ** Specialised Committee on Law Enforcement and Judicial Cooperation ** Specialised Committee on Participation in Union Programmes

Other bodies

The following organisations have been established based on the institutional framework: * EU–UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly * EU–UK Civil Society Forum

Functioning

As of September 2022, 3 decisions of the Partnership Council and 1 of a specialized committee have been published. The first one was the extension of the final date of provisional application of the Trade and Cooperation agreement to 30 April 2021.

References

External links

Meeting page of the EU-UK institutions
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