Common Fisheries Policy and Animals (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Common Fisheries Policy and Animals (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Procedure: Affirmative Made
Laid: 07 October 2019

The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) imposes a common approach to the sustainable management of fisheries across the EU and its waters. Three statutory instruments made in early 2019 under powers in the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 made corrections to ensure retained CFP legislation would operate effectively on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU when exit day was specified as 29th March 2019. This instrument is required to ensure retained EU law operates effectively following the exit day extension period. 

This further instrument is required in relation to three categories of amendments: 

(a) Amendments required to account for new EU CFP legislation which has come into force since 29th March 2019. 

(b) Amendments to EU legislation previously de-prioritised due to its non-essential nature that can be amended during the extension period before the new exit day. 

(c) Minor corrections required to previous statutory instruments made under the EUWA (mentioned above) due to typographic and other errors. 

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