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The Prime Minister’s Office has updated its document collection for the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), and associated agreements reached between the EU and UK at the end of the Brexit transition period. The newly added documents include an exchange of correspondence confirming the UK’s agreement to the EU’s proposed two-month extension to the provisional application of the TCA, pending ratification in the European Parliament. As interim co-chair of the Partnership Council under the TCA, Michael Gove signalled the UK’s agreement to the draft decision proposed by the European Commission, extending provisional application from 28 February to 30 April 2021. However, his response also noted the government’s expectation that there would be no further extensions beyond 30 April 2021, particularly in light of the ‘uncertainty’ that continued provisional application would create. Gove also noted the government’s view that, aside from adopting the decision to extend provisional application via written procedure, the Partnership Council and other institutional arrangements established under the TCA should not commence...