Policy paper

Rights and obligations of European Union membership

This paper sets out the main rights and obligations arising from the UK’s membership of the European Union.

This was published under the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

Documents

Rights and obligations of European Union membership – web version

Rights and obligations of European Union membership – print version

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Details

This paper is the second and final part of the report that the government is publishing to meet the requirement of section 7(1) of the European Union Referendum Act 2015. The government published the first part, Alternatives to membership: possible models for the United Kingdom outside the European Union, on 2 March 2016.

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Published 14 April 2016

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