(8)In view of the fact that, in the absence of a withdrawal agreement or of an extension of the two-year period after the United Kingdom's notification of its intention to withdraw from the Union, the Treaties will cease to apply to the United Kingdom from 30 March 2019, and in view of the need to provide legal certainty, it was considered appropriate to provide for an exception to the eight-week period referred to in Article 4 of Protocol No 1 on the role of national Parliaments in the European Union, annexed to the TEU, to the TFEU and to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community.