UK Ministers Abandon Plan to Repeal Retained EU Laws by Deadline
Originally Published 2 years ago — by BBC
The UK government has abandoned its plan to automatically expire thousands of EU-era laws at the end of the year, a move that was criticized for potentially leading to important legislation falling away by accident. The plan would have seen laws copied over to the UK after Brexit vanish, unless specifically kept or replaced. The government will now replace the cut-off point with a list of 600 laws it wants to replace by the end of the year. The Retained EU Law Bill, which began its journey through Parliament during Liz Truss's premiership, would have introduced a 31 December cut-off date for the laws to expire, unless the government replaced or decided to retain them.