Waste Management: EU Action

(asked on 23rd October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether new EU waste and recycling legislation being negotiated at EU level will apply in the UK given the deadline for transposing that legislation falling after the UK plans to leave the EU.


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Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 31st October 2017

The UK will continue to have all of the rights, obligations and benefits that membership brings, up until the point we leave the EU. Where transposition deadlines fall after the UK has left the EU, the outcome will depend on UK-EU negotiations.

We want to be the first generation to leave the environment of England in a better state than we inherited it. We remain committed to making the most of our resources, to reducing waste and to increasing reuse and recycling.

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