LONDON — The U.K. government is poised to lay out detailed plans for its post-Brexit relationship with the EU, building on a year of behind-the-scenes work in Whitehall, officials confirmed Sunday.

As first reported by POLITICO, the U.K. will clarify its position on a range of issues with the publication of formal strategy papers, starting this week, the Department for Exiting the European Union said in a statement.

Among the first to be published will be three papers that lay ground for the next round of negotiations in Brussels at the end of August, including one that sets out the U.K.’s plan for the post-Brexit border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

The other two position papers will address issues around the availability of goods for the EU and the U.K. and access to official documents following the U.K.’s withdrawal, the Brexit department said.

The series of publications will also include papers on the future relationship between the U.K. and the EU — highlighting the U.K.’s view that so-called exit issues such as the Brexit bill and the Northern Irish border, which the EU has insisted must be settled first, are inextricably linked to future relationship issues, which the EU has said it will only discuss once “sufficient progress” has been reached in talks.

“I’ve launched this process because with time of the essence, we need to get on with negotiating the bigger issues around our future partnership to ensure we get a deal that delivers a strong U.K. and a strong EU,” David Davis, the secretary of state for exiting the European Union, said in a statement.

“It’s what businesses across Europe have called on both sides to do and will demonstrate that the U.K. is ready for the job,” he said, adding that the position papers’ publication was “an important next step” in “getting on with the task set to us by the British public.”

The first of the future relationship papers will set out detailed proposals for a new customs arrangement with the EU and will form the basis of a new push to inform businesses and other stakeholders, including officials in EU member country capitals, about the U.K.’s plans for the future, as reported last week.

The new push to set out the U.K.’s position and lobby interest groups comes ahead of the October European Council summit, where EU leaders will judge whether Brexit talks have made sufficient progress to proceed to the next phase — talks on the future relationship. This next phase will include discussion of options for a transition deal and groundwork for a future trade agreement between the U.K. and the EU.

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