Recommendation 10

We recommend that the Government consults with the business community, unions, workers and consumer groups and identifies sectors of the economy where, over the next ten years, there will be mutual gains from maximising compatible regulation with the EU. This should include an assessment of the flexibilities the UK might need to maintain membership of existing trade deals like CPTPP, and to agree the free trade deals currently under negotiation with Switzerland, the Gulf Cooperation Council and India. Where there is significant mutual gain from compatible regulation with the EU, the Government should commit to a regulatory roadmap that maintains 34 compatible regulation with the EU and seek, where beneficial for both parties, mutual recognition of conformity assessments. (Recommendation, Paragraph 50)