{"id":359866,"date":"2025-08-20T16:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359866\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T16:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:37:11","slug":"the-fate-of-retained-eu-laws-since-brexit-green-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359866\/","title":{"rendered":"The fate of retained EU laws since Brexit \u00bb Green Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following Brexit, thousands of environmental laws faced potential elimination because they originated from the EU. The previous government\u2019s Retained EU Law Bill threatened sweeping deregulation through an arbitrary \u2018sunset clause\u2019 that would have automatically scrapped protections unless ministers actively saved them.<\/p>\n<p>In this stocktake, we examine what happened to the bill and how the current government has followed a more sensible approach, showing little inclination to weaken these important environmental protections. However, with powers to amend these laws remaining until June 2026, continued vigilance is essential. We outline key recommendations to ensure environmental standards are upheld, including maintaining accountability systems and restating crucial interpretive effects that protect environmental rights derived from EU conventions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following Brexit, thousands of environmental laws faced potential elimination because they originated from the EU. The previous government\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,36150],"class_list":{"0":"post-359866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-green-alliance"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115062075895108715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}