Removing ECJ oversight role in Northern protocol ‘out of the question’, EU warns

The UK wants to tear up the existing governance arrangements, removing the ECJ as the final arbiter in protocol-related trade disputes and replacing it with an independent international arbitration mechanism

Loyalists take part in an anti-Northern Ireland Protocol rally in Portadown, Co Armagh earlier this month.. Picture: PA

Stripping the European Court of Justice of its oversight role in the Northern Ireland Protocol is “out of the question”, an EU official has warned.

The proposal is included in the contentious UK Government Bill empowering ministers with the ability to scrap the bulk of the protocol.