The impact of EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement on UK nationals
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Head of Business Immigration
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I am head of our Business Immigration team in the UK, a member of Bird & Bird's International HR Services Group and a native speaker, reader and writer of Japanese.
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Free movement of persons between the UK and EU ended on 31 December 2020. In this article, we aim to raise awareness of the potential obstacles employers now face when sending their UK national employees to the EU for business purposes.
The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (‘TCA’) was recently implemented in the UK as a domestic legislation. It is an agreement covering trade and services between the UK and EU from 1 January 2021. The EU Parliament has yet to vote on the TCA, however, it is deemed provisionally applicable in the EU from 1 January 2021.
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