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| Confidential documents that "reflect the ideas the UK has put forward" on Brexit have been shared with the EU, the UK government says. | Confidential documents that "reflect the ideas the UK has put forward" on Brexit have been shared with the EU, the UK government says. |
| A statement said it will table "formal written solutions when we are ready" and not to an "artificial deadline". | A statement said it will table "formal written solutions when we are ready" and not to an "artificial deadline". |
| It comes after Finland's prime minister said Boris Johnson has 12 days to set out his Brexit plans to the EU. | It comes after Finland's prime minister said Boris Johnson has 12 days to set out his Brexit plans to the EU. |
| The European Commission said documents had been received and technical talks will now take place. | The European Commission said documents had been received and technical talks will now take place. |
| The commission's chief spokesperson Mina Andreeva also confirmed there will be talks at a political level at a meeting on Friday between the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier and Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay. | |
| The technical discussions will be on some aspects of rules relating to customs, manufactured goods, sanitary and phytosanitary - which relates to the health of plants, she said. | |
| Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he wants to leave the EU, preferably with a deal, on 31 October and has urged the EU to scrap the backstop in the withdrawal agreement. | |
| The backstop is the controversial policy aimed at preventing the return of a hard border on the island of Ireland and it has been a key sticking point in former PM Theresa May's Brexit deal. | |
| The EU has asked for alternative suggestions and had criticised the UK for not putting any plans in writing. | |
| A UK government statement said: "We have now shared in written form a series of confidential technical non-papers which reflect the ideas the UK has been putting forward. | |
| "We will table formal written solutions when we are ready, not according to an artificial deadline, and when the EU is clear that it will engage constructively on them as a replacement for the backstop." |