Brexit: Stop-gap for environmental law change
By Conor Macauley
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image captionThe UK s Environment Bill is making its way through the legislative process and is not expected to become law until Autumn
A new way for people to complain about public bodies failing to uphold environmental law has gone live.
It is a stop-gap measure while the loss of environmental oversight as a result of Brexit is addressed.
Environmentalists have welcomed the Interim Environmental Governance Secretariat but questioned whether it goes far enough.
The European Commission previously had a role in ensuring members states complied with EU environmental law.
Those laws have been copied into domestic legislation as part of the Brexit process.
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Date: 27 May 2021
What is regulation? Regulation is the controlling of an activity by means of rules. Environmental regulation is the controlling of activities which can.