In the latest blog in our Brexit Briefing Update series, Josie Cohen and her colleagues at Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK) revisit their briefing on ‘Brexit and pesticides: UK food and agriculture at a crossroads’.They warn that there are major concerns relating to the Statutory Instruments (SIs) on pesticides.
As we outlined in our Brexit Briefing – published by the FRC in November 2018 – the government promised that the SIs required for Brexit contain no meaningful policy changes and are simply technical instruments needed to fix bits of EU laws that will no longer apply, such as replacing the name of an EU body with its UK equivalent or removing a requirement to collaborate with other Member States. However, civil society is finding that, buried deep within these long and technical legal documents (some of them run to hundreds of pages), there are changes that will undermine the protections the UK has enjoyed as an EU Member State, including in crucial areas like the environment and human rights. Read more … |
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