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Brexit & travel: destination unknown?

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25 February 2021 / Christopher Loxton
Issue: 7922 / Categories: Features , Brexit , EU
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Christopher Loxton reports on the impact of Brexit on travel arrangements between the UK and EU
  • Entry requirements.
  • Compliance with laws and regulations.
  • Passenger rights.
  • Package travel, motor travel.

This article sets out what impact the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (the TCA) will have, along with Brexit more generally, on travel between the UK and the EU. An article on the TCA’s impact on aviation between the UK and the EU, including flight routes between the two territories, can be found here.

Very little of the TCA itself concerns travel between the UK and EU. The section of the TCA entitled ‘Heading Two: Aviation’ runs to just 25 pages out of a total of 1,246, with most of the section of little interest to passengers. A short section on visas (Heading Four, Title II: Visas for short-term visits) amounts to just one page. Other parts concern the transportation of passengers by road and the rights of UK/EU travel agents, tour operators and guides to

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