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A person familiar with Britain’s negotiating position said the UK focus is on making sure the MoU provides transparency and appropriate dialog when it comes to adopting, suspending and withdrawing equivalence decisions.
Currently, the EU can in theory scrap equivalence decisions with just 30 days’ notice.
Under the U.S. deal with the EU, equivalence is treated as “outcomes-based.”
Britain has called for EU equivalence also to be outcomes based, which would ensure that the focus would be on whether financial rules in Britain and the EU produce the same result.
But there is no mention of outcomes-based equivalence in the draft EU-UK memorandum.
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