The 2019 revisions also adapted elements of the political declaration and replaced the word “appropriate” with “appropriate” with respect to labour standards. According to Sam Lowe, a trade fellow at the Centre for European Reform, the amendment excludes labour standards from dispute resolution mechanisms. [27] In addition, the Equal Competition Mechanism has been postponed from the legally binding withdrawal agreement to the political declaration,[24] and the line of the political statement that “the United Kingdom will consider taking into account alignment with trade union rules in the relevant areas” has been removed. [26] CONSIDERING that it is in the interests of both the EU and the United Kingdom to set a transition or implementation period during which, notwithstanding all the consequences of the UK`s withdrawal from the EU with regard to the UK`s participation in THE EU institutions, bodies and agencies, particularly at the end of this agreement. , mandates of all members of EU institutions, EU institutions and agencies designated, appointed or elected as part of the UK`s membership of the EU – EU law, including international agreements, should apply to the UK and the United Kingdom, and generally with the same effect to Member States, in order to avoid disruption during the period of negotiation of the agreement on future relations , some EU rules on food and agriculture will continue to apply to NI during the backstop period. Existing controls on animals and animal products moving from the UK to NI need to be strengthened. The political statement states that provisions to address health and plant protection barriers to trade barriers should be introduced “on the basis of WTO agreements and going beyond.” Such an agreement can be obtained by any type of communication. 2. EU obligations under EU trade guarantee law apply in the United Kingdom where the tendering, contracting or contracting procedure for the classified contract, classified sub-contract or exclusion case was initiated before the end of the transition period. CONSIDERING that the United Kingdom and the Eu must take all necessary measures to begin as soon as possible, from the date of this agreement`s entry into force, formal negotiations on one or more agreements on their future relations, in order to ensure that these agreements apply, as far as possible, from the end of the transition period. , obligations arising from obligations arising from trade between the Union or Member States acting on their behalf or by Member States acting jointly with the Union and its Member States, to the extent that they relate to trade in goods between the UNION and third countries 1. The Member States` market supervisory authorities and the UK market supervisory authorities are immediately exchanging all relevant information collected in connection with their market monitoring activities relating to Article 41, paragraph 1 products.