On 16 July 2020, the UK government published a White Paper on the UK Internal Market. In his Foreword to the White Paper, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Alok Sharma noted that
ENVIRONMENTAL PRINCIPLES AND GOVERNANCE IN WALES
UK TO WITHDRAW FROM EUROPEAN AVIATION SAFETY AGENCY
ENVIRONMENT BILL
AGRICULTURE BILL
The re-introduced Agriculture Bill for the 2020 session of Parliament aims to enable the UK, or specifically England, on withdrawal from the Common Agricultural Policy on Brexit, to enact its own system of direct payments, replacing EU subsidies with payments of “public money for public goods”: such as environmental or animal welfare improvements.
FISHERIES BILL
The Fisheries Bill re-introduced to Parliament in 2020 aims to enable the UK to take powers to operate as an independent coastal state after Brexit; to withdraw from the Common Fisheries Policy, and to control access, by licensing external vessels, to UK fisheries within the UK’s 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zone.
POLICY FORUM FOR WALES KEYNOTE SEMINAR – ENERGY POLICY IN WALES
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FOR WALES COMMITTEE REPORT ON ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE POST BREXIT
On 2 October 2019, the Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee of the National Assembly for Wales published a report on ‘Environmental principles and governance post-Brexit’, containing very important recommendations to the Welsh Government for the way in which environmental laws and principles should be enacted, applied and enforced in Wales post Brexit.
GOVERNMENT BRIEFINGS FOR A NO DEAL BREXIT
AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES BILLS FALL WITH THE PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT: ENVIRONMENT BILL NOT YET INTRODUCED
MICHAEL GOVE MP’s FORMER SPECIAL ADVISER AT ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT TO STAND AS LIBERAL DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE
OPERATION YELLOWHAMMER
BREXIT AND EURATOM
We have undertaken recent work to update earlier assessments on the full implications of Brexit on the UK leaving the Euratom Treaty.
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