National Assembly for Wales

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Regrets that the agreement does not fully reflect the will of the Welsh people, as expressed in the European Union referendum of June 2016, but notes that it does remove the United Kingdom from being subject to the European Union's laws, which has had a damaging impact on our economy and sovereignty, and brings to an end the divisive politics expressed by the denial of the democratic process by remain campaigners.

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1. Welcomes the trade and cooperation agreement between the UK Government and the European Union.

2. Believes that it is in the interests of Wales to extend support for the agreement and to provide legislative consent for its implementation via a European Union (Future Relationship) Bill.

3. Calls upon the Welsh Government to work constructively with the UK Government to take advantage of new opportunities for Wales arising from the end of the post-Brexit transition period.

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Believes that the Welsh Government's current stance on the recent UK-EU trade agreement, and its ongoing references to its documents 'Securing Wales' Future' and 'The future UK/EU relationship: negotiating priorities for Wales', is totemic of its desire to sabotage and reverse the result of 2016 referendum which showed decisively, in the UK's largest democratic exercise, that the people of Wales and the UK wanted to leave the European Union.

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Notes the statement issued by Fishing for Leave on the 24 December 2020, part of which suggests, in regards to the recent UK-EU trade agreement, that it is not a clean break from EU control over UK fishing and further suggests that Britain should fully take back control of its waters and move to rightful quota shares based on the international principle of zonal attachment.

Fishing for Leave: Fishing paid the ultimate price on the way in and it looks like a poor settlement to pay for a deal on the way out – 24 December 2020

In point 4, delete ‘but nevertheless, accepts that this deal is less damaging than leaving the transition period without a trade deal’ and replace with ‘and believes that it represents a hard Brexit for which there is no mandate and which is not in Wales’s interests’.

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Believes that this deal does not fulfil the promises made in the 2016 referendum and is not an acceptable outcome for the people of Wales whichever way they voted in that referendum.

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Believes that this deal will lead to a race to the bottom on workers’ rights and environmental standards and will be very damaging to the Welsh economy.

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Does not support the Conservative UK Government’s deal and calls on Wales’s representatives in the UK Parliament to vote accordingly.

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Calls on the Welsh Government to explore ways in which Wales might be able to re-join the Erasmus programme or work up its own Welsh alternative to Erasmus which would preserve the main benefits of the programme.