MADRID, May 10. (EUROPEAN PRESS) –

The UK government has announced that it will no longer automatically repeal all laws inherited from the European Union at the end of the year, but will instead focus on examining on a case-by-case basis which ones it wants to replace. , a more moderate line that clashed with the hardline Eurosceptics thesis of the past year.

The initial plan, promoted by former Prime Minister Liz Truss and Deputy Jacob Rees-Mogg, was to repeal all of these laws by January 1, 2024, raising concerns in certain sectors that some important regulations could be lost in the framework of a massive screening . Although there are no exact numbers, there will be thousands of laws that will be affected.

However, the current government, led by Rishi Sunak, wants to draw up a detailed list of laws to be replaced by 2023. The Minister of Business and Commerce, Kemi Badenoch, has reduced the laws to repeal to fewer than 600 in a message. to Parliament under the current plan and, conversely, assuming that there will be some that deserve to be “reformed” and even “defended”, reports Sky News.

“This has to start from something more than a race against time,” Badenoch explained, in a tribune published in the ‘Daily Telegraph’ where he advocated “making laws work for the people who use them”, especially in the economic field. He also wanted to make clear that London remains committed to opening up Community Law pages, one of the cornerstones of Brexit.