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The European Parliament still has until the end of April to ratify the trade and cooperation agreement.
If it does not do so and provisional application of the agreement is not extended, then the trade deal would cease to apply, leaving Britain and the European Union to trade on WTO terms with tariffs and quotas.
Following the news of the plenary vote, trade committee chair Bernd Lange said, “We did not make it easy for ourselves; we examined it [the TCA] in detail and ensured participation and control in implementation by the European Parliament.”
He said that the agreement provides “additional instruments to act against the misbehaviour of the partner.”