Closed petition Keep retained EU environmental laws until equal or stronger UK laws introduced

Closed on 3 April 2023

The Retained EU Law (Revocation & Reform) Bill will remove EU-derived law protecting air, water, wildlife, land and waste in 2023. We want these laws to be retained until replacement legislation is passed which delivers equal or stronger protection for nature than retained EU law.

UK governments in the past decade have variously promised to be "the greenest government ever" and "to be the first generation that leaves the environment in a better state than that in which we inherited it". But the EU Law Bill risks creating a "gun-at-the-head" deadline for replacing retained EU law, rather than removing retained laws when Parliament has formulated and passed equal or stronger UK law. We believe spending valuable Parliamentary time on the latter would be the better option.