{"id":2861,"date":"2018-06-12T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canterburypolitics.wordpress.com\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2018-09-07T09:30:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T08:30:39","slug":"cefeus-submits-two-pieces-of-evidence-to-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/2018\/06\/12\/cefeus-submits-two-pieces-of-evidence-to-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"CEFEUS Submits Two Pieces of Evidence to Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

From our students –\u00a0Christian George, David Turner and Noora Eveliina Virtanen\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since we both started working our respective RED internships, we\u2019re helping Professor Amelia Hadfield and the Centre for European Studies (CEFEUS) prepare evidence submission to two enquiries currently underway by Committees the House of Commons and House of Lords respectively.<\/p>\n

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EU UK Security Treaty Evidence <\/strong><\/p>\n

On the 25th May CEFEUS submitted evidence to the House of Lords EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee inquiry on Brexit and the proposed UK-EU security treaty. This marks the 8th evidence the Centre has submitted and was written with the assistance of CEFEUS Research Assistants Noora Virtanen and Fennel Wellings.<\/p>\n

The submission highlights the key components that are under a threat after Brexit if a suitable deal is not negotiated. These components included maintaining access to information sharing, such as the SIS II, and police cooperation through Europol and Eurojust. The submission also highlighted the opportunities of negotiating bilateral treaties, such as the 2018 Sandhurst Treaty between the UK and France.<\/p>\n

Putting together evidence is a rewarding process. We started with collecting information from the EU and the UK official databases and\u00a0reading existing treaties. Once we had put together a draft version of the submission, we were lucky to be able to interview\u00a0a Senior Lecturer at the\u00a0School of Law, Criminal Justice and Computing at CCCU to find out their insights on the the inquiry,\u00a0and add them in. All in all, writing the submission required close attention to detail but was a very rewarding experience. We were\u00a0able to learn about the topic in great detail which will be useful in the future.<\/p>\n

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Brexit Freight Evidence <\/strong><\/p>\n

Then on Wednesday 6th<\/sup> June, CEFEUS submitted evidence to the Transport Committee on Freight and Brexit, marking the 9th<\/sup>\u00a0submission by the Centre. It was written with the assistance of Christian Turner and Lucas Pierce. The inquiry is looking into the impact of Britain\u2019s departure from the European Union will have on the freight industry, in addition to the proposed \u2018Road Haulage and Trailers Permit\u2019 Bill currently being debated in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n

The submission draws upon CEFEUS\u2019 work on a proposed report on the Border, which has involved meetings and evidence gathering from a range of sources at local, national and international level. The evidence submission itself focus on \u2018The Kent Imperative\u2019; namely issues that will affect the county of Kent. Over 16,000 HGVs travel through the county each day and any potential delays can have an egregious effect on the county. Port of Dover recently estimated that an extra two minutes processing per vehicle would result in 17 mile queues in both the UK and France. Finally, the submission concludes with some suggested solutions to the issues outlined, such as membership of the Common Transit Convention (CTC) and a Kent Brexit Bill.<\/p>\n

Both pieces of evidence will now be considered by the committees in relation to their inquiries. Often, written evidence is subsequently published online, and in some cases, you can be asked to appear before the committee to present oral evidence in order to answer any questions the committee may have. This occurred most recently in December 2017 when Amelia Hadfield was asked to appear before the Communities and Local Government Committee on their inquiry on Local Government and Brexit. Finally, the committee will publish a report based on their inquiry, and the evidence submission may be formally cited in their observations.<\/p>\n

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All in all, it has been an exciting and helpful exercise that may help bring about meaningful change in policy at national level and we are grateful to have been given the opportunity to work on the submissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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