JOINT DECLARATION No 1/2023 OF THE UNION AND THE UNITED KINGDOM IN THE JOINT COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED BY THE AGREEMENT ON THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY

of 24 March 2023

Reflecting the arrangements laid down in Decision No 1/2023 of the Joint Committee, the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland (‘the Protocol’), as amended by that Joint Committee Decision, should now be known as the ‘Windsor Framework’.

Therefore, wherever relevant in dealings between the Union and the United Kingdom under the Withdrawal Agreement, the Protocol, as amended by Joint Committee Decision No 1/2023, will, consistent with the requirements of legal certainty, be referred to as the ‘Windsor Framework’. The Protocol, as amended by Joint Committee Decision No 1/2023, may also be referred to as the ‘Windsor Framework’ in the domestic law of the Union and the United Kingdom.