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This system was up and running when what became the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 was introduced. The market access principles that the Act introduced were designed to ensure that there is a single market across all parts of the UK. Central to its provisions is the principle that whatever is done by way of marketing or the use of products that is compatible with the framework in one part of the UK can be done anywhere else within the UK irrespective of what the local legislative framework may provide. In other words, any provision about the marketing or use of products in one part of the UK that may diverge from what applies elsewhere will, in practice, be unenforceable. That is not how the common framework system is designed to operate.