EEF comment on Repeal Bill

Commenting on the Repeal Bill published today, Terry Scuoler, Chief Executive of EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, said:

“The Repeal Bill is the most important and complex legislative measure that Parliament will scrutinise and debate in many decades. It is set against a fast approaching and hard deadline of the UK’s departure from the EU.  UK businesses must be given the confidence and certainty that the transfer of European legislation into UK law will be undertaken with no disruption to business and trading arrangements after March 2019.

“Given the obvious danger that the Bill could create unintended legal and regulatory consequences that would damage business and trade relationships with the EU , it is vital Government fully consults with business from the off on the detail that lays within the Bill. This must include Parliament being given the time and scope to adequately scrutinise what is a highly complex and unprecedented  transfer of legislative measures to the UK.”