Government reduces number of environmental laws to cut from 1,700 to 341 but wide range to be repealed
Ministers have published the list of 600 EU laws the government plans to scrap by the end of the year in a much-reduced Brussels “bonfire” that has enraged hardline Brexiters in the Conservative party.
In a significant retreat on its retained EU law bill, the government has slashed the number of environmental laws that would have automatically expired on 31 December from 1,700 to 341.
Membership of the Council of Europe convention on an integrated safety, security and service approach at football matches and other sports events.
A “control programme” designed to ensure compliance with maximum residue levels of pesticides and to assess consumer exposure to pesticide residues in and on food of plant and animal origin.
A directive related to measures credit and financial institutions must take to mitigate money laundering and terrorist financing risk in certain third countries.
Regulation relating to sectors and subsectors that are deemed to be exposed to a significant risk of carbon leakage.
Rules relating to a countryside stewardship scheme and flood risk regulations from 2009, which the government says in explanatory notes “have been superseded by UK legislation or is a duplicate of existing domestic legislation”.
Tax agreements with the Channel Islands and Caribbean countries including the Virgin Islands and Aruba.
