Which way each rule applies

This is our reading of each rule’s own words: “both ways” only where the words name both sides.

It lists 2,052 rules that give a power, a duty, a check, a presence or a cooperation across the line between Gibraltar and Spain or the European Union (EU). For each rule it shows which way the rule applies, the rule in one line, where it is written and the words that decide it. Search for a word, an article or a place; choose a direction, an area or a document; the list shows 25 rules at a time. What each direction means is explained under “How to read this register”, below the rules.

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The rules

How to read this register

The four ways a rule can apply

Both ways

The rule’s own words give the power, duty or right to each side, or set a matching rule for each side.

One way: Spain/EU to Gibraltar

The power, duty, check or presence is held or exercised by Spain or the EU in, over or towards Gibraltar, and no matching rule the other way was found in the text read.

One way: Gibraltar to Spain/EU

The power, duty, check or presence is held or exercised by Gibraltar in, over or towards Spain or the EU, and no matching rule the other way was found in the text read.

Not stated

The words do not say who acts or whether the rule works both ways, for example passive wording, or a role such as “requesting” or “requested” with no side named.

Rows from Gibraltar’s own law (the Act and the Legal Notices) describe what Gibraltar’s law says. Gibraltar’s law binds Gibraltar by nature, so a row from it marked “One way: Gibraltar to Spain/EU” does not show what the treaty gives each side. The Act and the Legal Notices can be read in full on Gibraltar Laws.

What the register covers

Readers went through the texts we hold and recorded the rules that cross the line. Rules they judged not to cross it, for example definitions or duties that each side carries out on its own territory, are not in the register. The words in quotation marks are the words of the text named in the row.

Our reading of “requested Participant”: the side into whose territory the surveillance continues.

1 entry is a statement made in debate, not a rule; it is in the register with the direction “Not stated” and says so.

Rows in each document group:

• The treaty: text, annexes and protocols: 920
• Administrative arrangements: 323
• Gibraltar’s law: the Act and the Legal Notices: 720
• Declarations, decisions and the Concordat: 32
• 2019 tax agreement and 2020 framework: 56
• A statement in debate (not a rule): 1