The UK’s short-term focus must be on fully transposing the European Union’s environmental acquis into UK law to ensure continued environmental protection and provide much-needed post-Brexit certainty, says IEMA.
There is an immediate challenge to incorporate all existing environmental law into the UK statute books before the Brexit deadline, IEMA said. Longer-term, the UK must take the “unprecedented opportunity to reshape the policy landscape” to deliver better environmental outcomes. To support the process, on 3 October IEMA published Brexit and Beyond: IEMA Core Principles for the Environment.
The document outlines three overarching goals for environmental safeguarding outside the EU and sets out key governance considerations on transparency, scrutiny and accountability and eight underpinning principles that strengthen the UK’s policy approach.
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