The sources documents rest on, and dated lines added since the last full edition, each with its source. Built 16 October 2026. Each line is checked and approved before it is added.The treatyThe Agreement in respect of Gibraltar between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part. It was signed in Brussels on 14 July 2026.
Where the texts come from
The English texts come from the official English versions published by the European Union (EU) on EUR-Lex, the United Kingdom (UK) on GOV.UK and UK Parliament, and Gibraltar (the Acts and legal notices that change Gibraltar's law for the treaty, from Gibraltar Laws and the Gibraltar Gazette, and Gibraltar Parliament records: Hansard, Bills and Command Papers), plus HM Government of Gibraltar and European Commission press releases where a statement is quoted. Where a text exists only in Spanish (BOE), we quote it in Spanish and say so, and any translation beside it is ours.
Where the texts come from
The Spanish texts come from the official Spanish versions published by the EU on EUR-Lex and the Government of Spain, in the BOE, not from our translations. Where a text exists only in English, we say so and the translation is ours.
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The sources these pages rest on
The treaty documents on this site are built from the signed texts and from official records. This part lists the main sources outside the treaty texts, and how often the site checks for new ones.
Hansard of the Gibraltar Parliament
Hansard is the Parliament's official record of what is said in it. It is the primary source on this site for what Ministers and other Members have said in the Gibraltar Parliament. For a statement made in Parliament, the page What has been said in Parliament and in public, checked against the text quotes Hansard with the date, session and page. A press report of the same statement is a second reference only. Where only a press report exists, the page says so and says the statement is not on the parliamentary record so far.
The 30 sittings of 2026 held, and 3 sets of written answers, with the Parliament's own record of each:
House of Lords European Affairs Committee, report HL Paper 62, Scrutiny of International Agreements: Agreement in respect of Gibraltar (2nd Report of Session 2026–27, published 14 October 2026)
House of Lords European Affairs Committee, supplementary and written evidence on the agreement: Lord Wood of Anfield, 30 September 2026 (GIB0001); the Chief Minister of Gibraltar, 7 October 2026 (GIB0002); the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Gibraltar (GIB0003)
House of Lords Library, In Focus: UK- Agreement in respect of Gibraltar, 14 October 2026 (a Library paper, not a record of what was said in a House)The EUThe European Union (EU). The treaty also names the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), a separate body run alongside it.
House of Lords Grand Committee, 2 September 2026, Overseas Prudential Requirements Regime (Credit Institutions and Investment Firms) Regulations 2026 (no treaty statement)
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Written question 25690 (Commons, tabled 28 August, answered 9 September 2026)
Written questions and answers on Gibraltar, July to September 2026 (nine items, including Lord Empey to Lord Wood, answered 29 July 2026, id 1928453, and the seven identical answers of 9 September 2026)
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How often the site checks for new sittings. Four checks look at the parliaments. (1) Every morning at 09:00 a script reads the Gibraltar Parliament's Hansard index page and downloads each new sitting PDF of the current year, waiting three seconds between downloads. (2) A monitoring service collects Gibraltar and UK parliamentary records twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays. (3) On Mondays the watch writes a list of everything new that week, by source. (4) A routine run twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays, looks for new sittings, written answers and UK Hansard. Reading a new sitting into the texts is done by a person afterwards; nothing here changes a page by itself.
Gaps found on 6 October 2026. Hansard for 29 September and 2 October 2026 was not yet published. The Budget debate after the morning of 7 July 2026 is not on the Parliament's index. Written answers after July 2026 are not published. The Parliament's consolidated volume for September 2025 to January 2026 is not held. Nothing was fetched to fill these.
Government of Gibraltar guidance documents
The Government of Gibraltar has published these guidance documents on goods and customs. They are the Government's own statements about how the treaty's goods rules apply, not the treaty text. They are held, and checked every Monday for changes.
Consolidated FAQ Questions Report (HM Government of Gibraltar, file dated 19 June 2026).
HM Customs Gibraltar guidance notes, files dated 16 June 2026: Special Customs Procedures for EU goods; Special Customs Procedures for non-EU goods, with the Spanish Tax Agency's instructions supporting it (Spanish original and an English version); the Goods Transit Process (Transit GN).Read the texts on this
HM Customs Gibraltar guidance notes, files dated 16 June 2026: Special Customs Procedures for EU goods (Annex 19); Special Customs Procedures for non-EU goods (Annex 21), with the Spanish Tax Agency's instructions supporting it (Spanish original and an English version); the Goods Transit Process (Transit GN).
HM Customs Gibraltar guidance note on NIF and EORI registration, dated 22 May 2026, with the EORI application form and the Spanish instructions; a press release of 26 May 2026.Read the texts on this
HM Customs Gibraltar guidance note on NIF and EORI registration, dated 22 May 2026, with the EORI application form and the Spanish instructions; press release 400/2026 of 26 May 2026.
Technical Notice on transitional arrangements for goods, a press release of 2 February 2026. It was issued before the treaty was signed and gives 10 April 2026 as the expected date of entry into force; the later guidance gives 15 July 2026.Read the texts on this
Technical Notice on transitional arrangements for goods, press release 63/2026 of 2 February 2026. It was issued before the treaty was signed and gives 10 April 2026 as the expected date of entry into force; the later guidance gives 15 July 2026.
Treaty information portal (web address treaty-gov.info): it carries the Government of Gibraltar crest and copyright line; not linked from www.gibraltar.gov.gi so far; Government ownership to be confirmed. It carries a treaty summary, FAQs and links to the Government guidance documents above. The public records do not name its owner. The site is checked every Monday for new links to www.gibraltar.gov.gi documents.
The Ultimate Beneficial Ownership Register moved to the GFSC on 1 September 2026.
The old submissions portal closed 31 August; new portal at portal.fsc.gi/uboregister; transition period ended 30 September 2026; register team beneficialownership@fsc.gi
Where it goes and how it is graded: Where the treaty documents deal with beneficial ownership and the treaty's information flows: a dated line, graded as the GFSC's own statement of what it has done (an institution's statement of its own act, not a claim about the treaty's effect)
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Where it goes and how it is graded: Where the treaty documents deal with beneficial ownership and the treaty's information flows (Art. 251): a dated line, graded as the GFSC's own statement of what it has done (an institution's statement of its own act, not a claim about the treaty's effect)
The House of Lords European Affairs Committee reported the Gibraltar agreement for the House's special attention and debate on 14 October 2026.
Its report (HL Paper 62, 2nd Report of Session 2026–27) says the agreement is politically important because it settles a significant post-Brexit issue concerning Gibraltar's relationship with the EU, and that the process under the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 gives the House its only opportunity to debate the agreement in detail before ratification is complete. The report describes what the agreement contains and does not criticise its text; its only recommendation is that the House debate it. The report gives 22 October 2026 as the date the period under that Act ends. The House of Lords Library page of 14 October 2026 says the House of Lords is scheduled to debate a motion to take note of the agreement in Grand Committee on 20 October 2026, moved by the committee's chair.
Where it goes and how it is graded: Where the treaty documents deal with how the agreement is ratified and with the Concordat's undertaking on termination: a dated line, graded as the committee's own statement of what it has done (an institution's statement of its own act, not a claim about the treaty's effect). The report's descriptions of the agreement are not graded here
The Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly adopted a draft decision on Gibraltar on 15 October 2026 that welcomes the signing of the agreement on 14 July 2026.
The draft decision (document A/C.4/81/L.3, 7 October 2026, submitted by the Chair) says that the Assembly "welcomes the signing on 14 July 2026 of an agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom in respect of Gibraltar", and that it "takes note that the agreement is without prejudice to the respective legal positions of Spain and the United Kingdom with regard to sovereignty and jurisdiction, and reaffirms that those positions remain unchanged". The UN's press summary of the meeting (GA/SPD/841, marked "For information media. Not an official record.") says the draft decision was adopted by a recorded vote of 161 in favour to 2 against (Israel, United States), with 2 abstentions (France, Honduras).
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The draft decision (document A/C.4/81/L.3, 7 October 2026, submitted by the Chair) says in paragraph (d) that the Assembly "welcomes the signing on 14 July 2026 of an agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom in respect of Gibraltar", and in paragraph (e) that it "takes note that the agreement is without prejudice to the respective legal positions of Spain and the United Kingdom with regard to sovereignty and jurisdiction, and reaffirms that those positions remain unchanged". The UN's press summary of the meeting (GA/SPD/841, marked "For information media. Not an official record.") says the draft decision was adopted by a recorded vote of 161 in favour to 2 against (Israel, United States), with 2 abstentions (France, Honduras).
Source: UN document A/C.4/81/L.3, Fourth Committee, 81st session, Question of Gibraltar, 7 October 2026 (the text of the draft decision); UN meetings coverage GA/SPD/841, 15 October 2026: https://press.un.org/en/2026/gaspd841.doc.htm (the vote)
Where it goes and how it is graded: Where the treaty documents deal with how the agreement has been received and with sovereignty: a dated line, graded as the United Nations text's own statement of what the Committee did. What the draft decision says about the legal positions of Spain and the UK matches what the agreement provides on sovereignty: that the agreement, and what is done under it, are without prejudice to, and do not otherwise affect, the legal positions of the UK and of Spain with regard to sovereignty and jurisdiction
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Where it goes and how it is graded: Where the treaty documents deal with how the agreement has been received and with sovereignty: a dated line, graded as the United Nations text's own statement of what the Committee did. Paragraph (e) matches Article 2 of the agreement, which provides that the agreement, and what is done under it, are without prejudice to, and do not otherwise affect, the legal positions of the UK and of Spain with regard to sovereignty and jurisdiction
The Annual Report of the Independent Monitoring Authority (IMA) for 2025 was listed to be laid in the Gibraltar Parliament on 14 October 2026.
The IMA is the body that monitors the part of the Withdrawal Agreement on citizens' rights in the UK and Gibraltar; the report is about that agreement, not the treaty texts, and has an annex on Gibraltar. The Parliament's revised agenda of 14 October 2026 lists it to be laid on the Table by the Chief Minister, and the report is on the Parliament's papers-laid page. It is listed here as an official source on residents' rights.
Where it goes and how it is graded: Where the treaty documents list their sources on residents' rights: a new source, now used in the section on who may live here
The Minister of State for Europe, North America and UK Overseas Territories wrote to the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons about the Gibraltar treaty on 10 March 2026; the committee published the letter on 19 March 2026.
The letter, from Stephen Doughty MP, replies to the Chair's letter of 2 March 2026. It says: "All sides are working at pace to enable the Treaty’s provisional application before the EU’s new Entry-Exit System comes into effect, which has a deadline of 10 April". It adds that comprehensive implementation "will continue at pace, with an expectation that the UK and EU will be able to ratify the Treaty in early 2027". It says the Treaty "will be subject to parliamentary scrutiny pursuant to the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010" and that "we consider the existing framework for treaty scrutiny appropriate". The Minister adds that, should the committee wish it, "I would be happy to appear before it to answer any questions your members might have". The dates and expectations are those the letter gave on 10 March 2026; they are not checked against later events on this page.
Source: Foreign Affairs Committee, House of Commons, "Correspondence from the Minister of State for Europe, North America and Overseas Territories relating to the draft UK-EU agreement on Gibraltar, dated 10 March 2026" (the committee's title), published 19 March 2026 (the committee's published copy: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/52256/). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. (The licence: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
Where it goes and how it is graded: Where the treaty documents deal with how the agreement is ratified and with parliamentary scrutiny in the UK: a dated line, graded as the Minister's own statement of the Government's position and expectations on 10 March 2026 (a minister's statement of a position, not a claim about the treaty's effect)
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