Member

It is an important point and it has implications. If it is the latter, whereby the two standards run in parallel, I would be happy, but it is difficult to see why there would be any gains in reduced trade friction, which is, after all, one of the arguments used to justify the Bill. Since the EU will be well aware that non-EU standard bottles would be circulating in the UK and would still need to subject all such UK exports to some sort of process, one does not gain on the trade side.