Some of Protocol-applicable EU law instruments fall within areas covered by a Common Framework, in some cases the whole policy area of a CF is covered by the Protocol while in other cases only part of the CF has some intersection with Protocol-applicable EU law. 2.4 Alongside the relationship between CFs and Protocol-applicable EU law, some also have implications for areas of North-South cooperation on the island of Ireland, which are covered, in principle, by Article 11 of the Protocol and which are continuing to develop independent from the Protocol architecture as they did pre...