6/12/2023 0 Comments Speech recorder and writer![]() ![]() With this we fully take back control of our laws – as promised in the Conservative Party manifesto. Critically, by the end of 2023 we will end the supremacy of EU law and provide our courts with the ability to depart from the European Court of Justice case law. ![]() I will make it a priority to inject new impetus into the project to identify and scrap even more unnecessary regulations. ![]() We will retain the powers that allow us to continue to amend EU laws, so more complex regulation can still be revoked or reformed after proper assessment and consultation. This provides certainty for business in making it clear which regulations will disappear, instead of only what REUL would be saved. This week, we are publishing a list of the retained EU laws that will be scrapped by the end of 2023. I decided a new approach was needed one that will ensure ministers and officials are freed up to focus on more reform of REUL, and to do it faster. When I was handed responsibility for this Bill I saw that, confronted with the default position of retained EU law sunsetting at the end of this year, Whitehall departments had focused on which laws should be preserved ahead of the deadline, rather than pursuing the meaningful reform Government and businesses want to see. As the Bill is currently drafted, almost all REUL is automatically revoked at the end of 2023, unless a statutory instrument is passed to preserve it. It ensures that, for the first time in a generation, the UK’s statute book will not recognise the supremacy of EU law or EU legal principles. The Government introduced the Retained EU Law (REUL) Bill so that we could end the special status of retained EU law. But the real prize is the unique opportunity to look again at these regulations and decide if they’re right for our economy, if we can scrap them, or if we can reform and improve them and help spur economic growth. Yes, of course I want to ensure we remove any unnecessary regulations we inherited from Brussels over the past 50 years, and do so as soon as possible. It’s also why, now that I’ve been given responsibility for EU laws that have remained on the UK statute book, I want to make sure we do so in a way that maximises our competitive advantage. It’s why, as Trade Secretary, I prioritised negotiations with the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), sending out a signal of how post-Brexit Britain can thrive when it thinks beyond our immediate neighbours, by joining a group of the globe’s fastest growing economies. The potential of an independent UK forging its own place in the world is one of the reasons the country voted to leave the European Union. ![]()
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