Petition · past parliament · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Keep retained EU environmental laws until equal or stronger UK laws introduced
Closed
274 signatures
What the petition asks
The Retained EU Law (Revocation & Reform) Bill will remove EU-derived law protecting air, water, wildlife, land and waste in 2023. We want these laws to be retained until replacement legislation is passed which delivers equal or stronger protection for nature than retained EU law.
UK governments in the past decade have variously promised to be "the greenest government ever" and "to be the first generation that leaves the environment in a better state than that in which we inherited it". But the EU Law Bill risks creating a "gun-at-the-head" deadline for replacing retained EU law, rather than removing retained laws when Parliament has formulated and passed equal or stronger UK law. We believe spending valuable Parliamentary time on the latter would be the better option.
Timeline
| 3 Oct 2022 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 3 Apr 2023 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
274
Status
Closed
Department
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Opened
3 Oct 2022
Closed
3 Apr 2023
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.