Sep 20th, 2021
3 mins
New plans to capitalise on the freedoms from Brexit so that our rules and regulations best serve the UK national interest have been announced by Lord Frost.
Upon leaving the EU, there were thousands of individual EU regulations which the UK retained – known as ‘Retained EU Laws’. These will now be scrutinised by the Government to ensure they are ‘helping the UK to thrive as a modern, dynamic, independent country and foster innovation across the British economy’.
The review will aim to remove the ‘special status’ that EU retained law still enjoys in our legal framework and will determine how best to ensure that UK courts can no longer give undue precedence to EU-derived laws in future. The Government will then draw up a package of individual regulatory reforms to laws inherited while a member of the EU.
A full list of individual regulatory reforms announced can be found here.
The Government also plans to establish a new Commission through which the public will be able to identify additional opportunities for cutting or reforming red tape and bureaucracy. Any individual will be able to submit proposals. The Commission will then consider these ideas and make recommendations for change to the Government – but only if they go in the direction of reducing or eliminating regulation.
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