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If the European Commission wants to get out of this self-imposed mess, it needs to answer these questions:
1. Why did it not notify the UK government of its intention to impose the temporary safeguard (ie the export ban), as it is obliged to do under the NI Protocol?
(1/n)
1. Why did it not notify the UK government of its intention to impose the temporary safeguard (ie the export ban), as it is obliged to do under the NI Protocol?
(1/n)
2. Why did it not notify Ireland about using Art 16 to extend the ban to NI given the implications for the functioning of NI Protocol?
3. What justification for using Art 16 in the first instance? (Ie why to extend the export ban to NI?)
(2/n)
3. What justification for using Art 16 in the first instance? (Ie why to extend the export ban to NI?)
(2/n)
4. How does extending the export ban to NI specifically serve to prevent “disturb[ing] the orderly implementation of the vaccination campaigns in the member states”?
5. What is the duration of the safeguard measure taken under Art 16?
(3/n)
![4. How does extending the export ban to NI specifically serve to prevent “disturb[ing] the orderly implementation of the vaccination campaigns in the member states”?5. What is the duration of the safeguard measure taken under Art 16?(3/n)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Es7cFs2XIAURSkX.jpg "4. How does extending the export ban to NI specifically serve to prevent “disturb[ing] the orderly implementation of the vaccination campaigns in the member states”?5. What is the duration of the safeguard measure taken under Art 16?(3/n)")
5. What is the duration of the safeguard measure taken under Art 16?
(3/n)
6. Why to justify the export ban by saying it doesn’t seek to “single out” individual countries, when it explicitly exempts all countries in the EU’s neighbourhood but the UK?
(4/n)
(4/n)
