acquis

The incorporation of the acquis is part of the negotation process, and had already been completed by the time of the referendum.

Any new entrant to the EU has to accept the whole Acquis as it is at the time.

Which (apart from agriculture and fishery) regularly incorporates the EU acquis as an integral part of how it's set up.

And the EU is in fact mainly a trade body, setting standards and categorisations, so there are likely some rules on toilets already in EU acquis on health and safety at the workplace, etc.

The process started as Romania was implementing the EU acquis, after 1999.

If we are throwing out radical theories; i'd say acquis/merger with digital ocean or gitlab.

Consider the following EU definition of a free economy: The freedom of movement for workers is a policy chapter of the acquis communautaire of the European Union.

Switzerland is for most intents and purposes in the EU, minus a delay of several years of applying the EU acquis (EU body of laws concerning countries part of the single market).

The wealth across the entire EU has increased with initiatives like the Schengen acquis, international relations are closer than ever and the freedoms European citizens have gotten out of it are unlike anything imaginable before.

> The EU acquis on legal migration ensures that third-country nationals working in the EU benefit from equal treatment with nationals in terms of remuneration, access to social security systems and other conditions of employment.

There is sometimes talk of Spain veto-ing Scottish accession to the EU as a sort of warning to Catalonians (who closely identify with the Scottish indy movement), but realistically Scotland is aligned with the EU acquis so there's no really go reason not to.

Non-symbolically, it may try to set up some sort of review commission that will propose changes to the incorporated acquis; presumably this will be a body of, by and for the executive in the initial bill, unless they realize that in order to ease passage through Parliament it should include legislators (and possibly devolved bodies) from the start.

The price in lieu of our “acquis sociaux” was getting occupied, point blank.

They're using it to help translate and integrate the "Acquis communautaire" - the huge body of EU laws and regulations that need to be enshrined in national laws of candidate countries.

If Iceland, Norway, the UK, Switzerland or Liechtenstein decided one day they suddenly wanted to be in the EU, they wouldn't go in a queue behind the other applications - they'd rightly be assessed as "Generally aligned" with the all parts of the EU acquis and the process would be relatively quick, all things considered.