Skip to content
Adopted text

Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement

TA-10-2025-0307 · P10_TA(2025)0307 · PE768.086

Official HTML ↗ PDF DOCX
✦ In shortFull text
✦ In short · AI summary of this text, generated 4 Sept 2026

Written by a language model from the full text only; every figure comes from the text. The paragraph links open the paragraph a statement rests on — check the text itself before relying on it.

Parliament's resolution on the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) assesses its implementation and calls for deeper cooperation in trade, security, energy, fisheries, and people-to-people ties. It welcomes the 2025 EU-UK Summit outcomes, including the Security and Defence Partnership, and urges full implementation of the Withdrawal Agreement and Windsor Framework. The resolution stresses the need to reduce trade barriers, work towards a common sanitary and phytosanitary area, and link emissions trading systems. It calls for action on fisheries access, youth mobility, and the UK's re-association with Erasmus+, while protecting citizens' rights and the Good Friday Agreement.

Key points

  1. Calls for full, timely implementation of the Withdrawal Agreement, Windsor Framework, and TCA, including measures to protect Northern Ireland's unique status and avoid a hard border.
  2. Welcomes the Security and Defence Partnership and urges concrete defence industrial cooperation, including with Ukraine, and enhanced coordination on hybrid threats and sanctions.
  3. Urges simplification of customs procedures, mutual recognition of conformity assessments, and progress towards a common SPS area to reduce trade frictions.
  4. Calls for addressing barriers to services trade, including the UK's sponsorship system, and for mutual recognition of professional qualifications.
  5. Stresses the need for regulatory convergence in AI, data protection, and digital trade, and for continued adequacy decisions for data flows.
  6. Calls for monitoring of labour standards and non-regression, and welcomes UK employment rights proposals.
  7. Urges strategic use of equivalence decisions in financial services and action to reduce overreliance on UK clearing houses.
  8. Calls for linking EU and UK emissions trading systems and avoiding carbon border adjustment burdens on electricity trade.
  9. Demands fair fisheries access, condemns unilateral UK measures, and calls for implementation of the 2025 political agreement on waters.
  10. Calls for a youth mobility scheme and UK association with Erasmus+, and for measures to ease cultural and educational exchanges.
  11. Welcomes law enforcement cooperation and calls for continued data exchange while ensuring high data protection standards.
  12. Calls for strengthened foreign policy coordination, support for Ukraine, and joint action in the Western Balkans and Middle East.

Who is affected

  • Businesses and traders in the EU and UK, especially SMEs, affected by customs procedures and regulatory divergence.
  • Fishermen and fishing communities in the EU and UK, impacted by access to waters and unilateral measures.
  • Students, researchers, artists, and young people seeking mobility between the EU and UK.
  • Citizens in Northern Ireland and Ireland, whose rights and cross-border cooperation are affected by the Windsor Framework.
  • Financial services firms and market participants relying on equivalence and clearing arrangements.

Figures and deadlines

  • Over 35 meetings held in 2024 to monitor implementation of the TCA.
  • 79 complaints from EU and EEA citizens to the IMA between 1 January and 30 June 2023.
  • 21% refusal rate for EU Settlement Scheme applications in Northern Ireland in December 2024.
  • UK exports of services to the EU increased by 19% in 2024 compared to 2019.
  • Over 90% of euro interest rate derivatives processed at clearing houses in the City of London.
  • Extension of equivalence for UK central counterparties until 30 June 2028.
  • EU's TACs in UK waters to be reduced by 25% during the transitional period until end of 2026.
  • Brexit Adjustment Reserve fund of EUR 5.4 billion.