EDM 1733: EU Import Control System 2

That this House opposes the imposition of the EU’s Import Control System 2 (ICS2) on the movement of goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, treating all such movements as crossing an international customs border as if moving from one country to another from 1 September 2025; notes that these will cancel out asserted reductions in border frictions on the Green Lane; further notes that this will have a far more obstructive impact on the flow of goods between GB and Northern Ireland (NI) than on import flows into the EU elsewhere because in all other cases one is dealing with much less diverse international trade flows, rather than diverse intra-national, regional trade flows from one part of a country, the UK, to another; also notes, with grave concern, that ICS2 is involved in creating a GB internal market for goods and an EU/NI internal market for goods and that ICS2 is thereby implicated in the deconstruction of the erstwhile United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Internal Market for goods in violation of Section 46 of the Internal Market Act 2020 and thereby in the partial deconstruction of the UK in violation of the UN Declaration on Principles of International Law, Friendly Relations and Co-operation among states in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, which prohibits any actions by other states that disturb the internal unity of a sovereign state; and consequently calls on the Government to reject the imposition of ICS2 within the UK.