MPs hear from experts on reforming leftover EU laws
MPs on the European Scrutiny Committee take evidence from experts on how assimilated law, formerly known as retained EU law, can be reformed.
The Committee are also likely to ask whether the UK’s new legal freedoms offer opportunities and how the Government can improve strategic thinking to harness them.
Meeting details
At 2:30pm: Oral evidence
Inquiry
Retained EU law: the progress and mechanics of reform
These laws were left on the statute book following Brexit to avoid a legal cliff-edge. These were rules introduced while the UK was an EU member and had to be interpreted in line with EU principles. Since the start of the year, the supremacy of EU law to interpret them was abolished, creating ‘assimilated law’.