evidence: On 27 February 2023, the Government of the United Kingdom (UK) and the EU Commission announced a political agreement in principle on the Windsor Framework. The Windsor Framework will lay down new arrangements aimed at addressing the practical challenges encountered with implementing the Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP), in particular for goods entering Northern Ireland (NI) from Great Britain (GB). [...] On the 31 January 2020, the UK withdrew from the EU. The NIP is an integral part of the Withdrawal Agreement between the UK and the EU and became effective on 1 January 2021 following the end of the transition period. The NIP establishes a single regulatory zone on the Island of Ireland, thereby preventing a hard border between NI and Ireland, by applying specific EU legislation "to and in" NI. For medicinal products this includes, amongst other things, Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 and Directive 2001/83/EC. [...] Despite the above time-limited derogations, the application of UK medicine rules in GB and EU rules in NI has led to continued disruption and uncertainty for medicinal product supply chains into NI from GB.