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This dashboard shows a list of retained EU laws (REUL). These are laws that the UK saved to ensure legislative continuity immediately after Brexit.
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In September 2021, the government announced the review into the substance of retained EU law (REUL) to determine which departments, policy areas and sectors of the economy contain the most REUL.
The REUL dashboard showcases the outcome of this review and subsequent further work by departments as an authoritative catalogue of REUL.
The public is invited to explore this catalogue to build an understanding of how much EU-derived legislation sits on the UK statute book and scrutinise legislation.
REUL is a category of domestic law created at the end of the transition period. It is made up of certain pieces of direct EU legislation that were ‘cut and pasted’ onto the UK statute book. REUL can include legislation that is primarily designed to fulfil domestic policy objectives or other international commitments, where legislation also implements EU obligations.
The catalogue of REUL can be accessed via Microsoft Power BI, which hosts the third iteration of the interactive REUL dashboard. The new data included in this update was collected by departments in April 2023 as part of an ongoing cross-government collaborative exercise to identify REUL that did not otherwise have a clear departmental owner. This exercise has identified over 4,800 individual pieces of REUL in total, which are now present in the dashboard. This is an increase of approximately 1,080 pieces since the last iteration.
This dashboard provides multiple options to explore and filter the legislation, which is concentrated over 400 unique policy areas.
Future updates to the dashboard will take place throughout 2023. These will include further previously ‘orphaned’ REUL which has been identified by The National Archives. The first of these additional updates occurred in September 2023, with 77 additional pieces added, all planned for revocation via a statutory instrument to be laid on 4 September 2023. The dashboard now totals 4,994 entries.
This catalogue is provided by the UK government and is therefore not intended to provide an authoritative account of REUL that sits with the competence of the devolved governments. However, it may contain individual pieces of REUL which do sit in devolved areas and it does identify the territorial application of each piece of REUL.
Creating and continuing to develop this comprehensive record of EU-derived legislation will enable the government to accelerate regulatory reform and reclaim the UK statute book. Going forward, the government will continue to update this catalogue on a quarterly basis as government departments work to identify where more legislation can be amended, repealed or replaced. This dashboard documents the government’s progress against that aim.
For further instructions on using the dashboard please visit the Retained EU Law dashboard.
Published 22 June 2022
Last updated 4 September 2023 + show all updates
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