Brexit Britain has escaped 94,000 new EU laws and rules since leaving the EU

Facts4EU reveals the magnitude of the EU’s legal machine controlling people’s lives

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In the four years since we left, the EU’s legal factory has been in overdrive

For Rejoiners who ask “What has Brexit ever done for you?” we provide yet another example of a major benefit of the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union.

Scarcely any aspect of people’s and businesses’ lives has been untouched by the EU’s obsession with determining what they can or cannot do. Now at least Great Britain (excluding Northern Ireland) no longer has to kowtow to all the autocrats in Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg.

The exception is the European Court of Human Rights, to which the UK as a whole remains subservient. (See ‘Observations’ below.)

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

Since leaving the EU on 31 Jan 2020, here is what Great Britain has escaped

In the last four years the EU’s legal machine has produced the following :-

EU law and case-law (69,294)
Legal acts (14,346)
Treaties (2)
International agreements (1,997)
Preparatory documents (32,505)
Case-law (20,030)
EFTA documents (414)
National law and case-law (22,066)
National transposition (21,260)
National case-law (806)
JURE case-law (863)
Grand total : 93,997

(This is the number of documents in the database encompassing all of the above.)

[Source : The EU’s legal database, accessed 04 Feb 2024.]

Former Brexit Minister The Rt Hon David Jones MP

"The European Union is a giant regulatory factory, as this excellent report graphically illustrates.
"Our British Common Law tradition is very different from the EU's. Put simply, our legal system allows us to do anything that is not expressly forbidden; the EU, by contrast, seeks to micromanage every facet of personal and commercial life.
"We must, however, do much more to advance the Brexit revolution. We have assimilated thousands of pre-departure European Union laws through the Retained EU Law Act. The Government must rapidly review the utility of those laws and, where they are not of positive benefit, they should be swept away.
"Brexit should be a continuous, liberating process, and the Government must do much more to advance it."
- David Jones MP, commenting to Facts4EU.Org and CIBUK.Org, 05 Feb 2024

Here is just one example

In order to give readers some idea of what Great Britain has dodged, we present an example chosen at random.

Just one random example

Title : “Regulation (EU) 2023/2411 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 October 2023 on the protection of geographical indications for craft and industrial products and amending Regulations (EU) 2017/1001 and (EU) 2019/1753”

Summary : “This Regulation lays down rules on:

(a) registration and protection of, and controls in relation to, geographical indications designating craft and industrial products with a given quality, reputation or other characteristic linked to their geographical origin; and

(b) geographical indications entered in the international register established under the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications (‘the Geneva Act’) administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).”

No. of pages : 56

This is only one new Regulation out of thousands avoided by Great Britain since our exit from the European Union four years ago.

A layman’s guide to why the EU does this on an industrial scale

Facts4EU’s lawyer friends should probably look away now, but in layman’s terms the EU operates under the Napoleonic Code, rather than the Common Law system which is used by so many countries around the world.

In very, very broad terms English law means you can do something unless it is prohibited by statute. The continental approach is different. They prefer to dictate what you can do. If it isn’t prohibited under law it does not mean you won’t be prosecuted for doing something, merely that they have not yet passed a law permitting or denying it.

The end result is a plethora of legal instruments which are churned out on an industrial scale.

Observations

The constitution of the United Kingdom

The decision last week by Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s DUP to re-enter the Stormont Assembly in Belfast is something we fail to understand.

Northern Ireland remains under thousands of EU laws and other legal instruments. Neither its elected representatives nor its people have any say over these, nor does the Assembly have a vote over the many thousands of new laws which are produced by the EU each year.

The Province remains subject to a foreign power and its courts. And the residents of Northern Ireland – who are United Kingdom citizens – can do nothing about this.

If we receive more funding we intend to bring readers an important report, updating our previous reports on the topic.

Mr Sunak, the ECHR, and his electoral chances

The UK might not have to transpose EU laws into UK law any longer (except in Northern Ireland), but it remains under the sovereignty of the European Court of Human Rights.

Based on our mailbag, amongst many other things we recommend that the Prime Minister immediately withdraws the United Kingdom from the jurisdiction of the ECHR. If he were to man-up and do this, his electoral fortunes – and those of hundreds of his MPs – would certainly improve.

Another Brexit benefit

Despite the caveats above, our report today demonstrates why the UK was right to leave the EU. Since 01 February 2020 Great Britain has no longer needed to translate thousands of new EU laws, regulations, directives and rules into UK law.

Rejoiners can deflect onto any subjects they wish to, but they cannot deny that the right of the British people to live in a country where a foreign power does not dictate what they can and cannot do is of paramount importance. It’s called ‘Sovereignty’.

We must get reports like this out there

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Reader Comments 15

1. Sparky , Monday, February 05, 2024, 07:18:

Still campaigning to leave the EU. James O'Briens favourite subject in recent years, he never got a sensible answer, except on bendy bananas.. In June 22, Jacob Reese Mogg launched a dashboard for people to say what laws they wanted to get rid of, it doesn't exist now.
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On leaving the ECHR mentioned above, I would agree with John Major during his appearance at the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee in Feb 2023.
While some MPs in Sunak’s governing Conservative party support leaving the ECHR, opposition to the move is also widespread. Among large European states only Russia and Belarus are non-members of the Council of Europe, the governing body for the convention. The UK was the first country to ratify the convention, in 1951. Signatory governments are obliged to enforce rulings of the Strasbourg-based human rights court.
Sir Robert Buckland, the former Lord Chancellor who is fiercely opposed to leaving the body, pointed out that the UK’s membership of the convention and its governing Council of Europe were an important part of the underpinning for the 1998 Belfast Good Friday Agreement that ended the Northern Irish troubles.
Major said he shared Buckland’s concern. “People think it’s a European Union body, so they dislike it,” he told the committee. “It isn’t. The founding father of it was Churchill and members of his government. It was a British invention and we would be in pretty rum company if we left.”

2. Ashley Great Britain , Monday, February 05, 2024, 07:41:

1 Sparky.
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The ECHR may well have been part designed by the UK many years ago, That doesn't mean that it serves our purpose today. The ECHR is no longer how it was, Or doing for us what was intended. It's silly to cling onto something that is overall damaging just because Churchill had some involvement in it.
The ECHR is just another EU wacking stick.
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The EU want the system to be overly complicated so people just do what is told, They can hide many things in their papers and directives and, If you say I didn't know that, They'll bring out the trolley with the relevant indictment contained within.
Surely a can of beans only needs 2 or 3 A4 sheets about it.
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Thanks to the blob the UK Gov is not getting on with repealing the EU laws and directives. Its as if they know the more they repeal the less chance there is of the UK rejoining the EU.
Repealing Non beneficial EU laws is an essential part of Brexit, More evidence rejoiners and the blob are preventing it.

3. Gazzablack , Monday, February 05, 2024, 09:39:

1,
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Sparkless referencing Bloaty Mcbloatface now.
Bloaty's LBC audience is shrinking faster than a skinny dippers male appendage in the Arctic sea.

4. Sparky Hiroo , Monday, February 05, 2024, 09:45:

Prime Minister in Northern Ireland today visiting Stormont. No headlines in the Daily Mail about the developments in Northern Ireland. However they do cover with frightening headlines "Unelected judges have too much power, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg warns as he claims the sovereignty of Parliament has been 'eroded' in recent years by an 'activist judiciary'". In this he criticises both the ECHR and the Uk Supreme Court, this from a man who was part of the Govt that thought the laws around Covid restrictions and Parties at No 10 didn't apply to them, that allowed people like Michelle More to profit from Covid and Owen Patterson to abuse his position.

5. John Jones , Monday, February 05, 2024, 09:52:

"Brexit Britain has escaped 94,000 new EU laws and rules since leaving the EU..."
What a seductive headline.
Unfortunately it's unlikely to be true.
The EU is, amongst other things, a large regional trading bloc or Regional Trading Entity (RTE in the parlance).
As such it takes many of the trading rules& directives from intergovernmental organisations such as WTO, World Customs Organisation, ICAO ( air safety), UNECE ( motor vehicle design & safety) , Codex Alimenterious ( part of UNECE inc SPS / food safety) & a myriad of other such organisations - the EU is as much a rule taker as maker as is the UK now we're out of the EU.
The UK now sits at the top table in its own right alongside the EU with its 27 votes to our one.
Here's the rub - up to c. 27% of the supposed 96,000 EU rules will likely have come from these Intergovernmental orgs and courtesy of the Trade & Cooperation Agreement - we are obliged to follow, we have no choice.
The good news is that we don't have the ECJ as the judicial body - rather, we work with the WTO /others to rectify issues between countries.
Never ever underestimate how much carry over of international agreements came with the TCA - it's what facilitates trade but also establishes standards ( mechanical, electronic, human processes) without which trade ( as we know it) could not take place.
Getting out of the EU ( apart from NI) is getting out of part of the ' double coffin lid ' - once you're out of the first EU coffin, you've the global coffin to deal with from which there really is no escape - at least the ECJ can't reach us here.

6. IAN SCHOFIELD , Monday, February 05, 2024, 09:58:

The comment right at the top of the page refers to John Major and James O’brien as sources of irrefutable evidence of why all things EU are right. I would argue they are as captive to EU orthodoxy as the comment maker.
It beggars belief why some people just cannot see why EU membership is not right for the UK regardless of how much evidence is put before them.
It strikes me that George Orwell wrote Animal Farm and 1984 to try and warn people about institutions and political blocs like the EU and ‘bigger state’. But despite the clear and present dangers there are still those who just are not prepared to look and see the reality staring them in the face.

7. Gazzablack , Monday, February 05, 2024, 13:26:

4, sparkless.
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Here's a question for you sparky my little fruitloop.
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In light of the fact that Boris received an FPN for an "event" at no. 10, what are your thoughts on the Met' police?
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Are they competent or incompetent
Are they more Inspector Morse, or more Inspector Clouseau?
Able to find a needle in a haystack, or couldn't find a hole in a colander?
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I ask this because after the Met carried out exhaustive interviews with both participants and witnesses, they only found one occasion for which to issue Boris his FPN, an event that was briefed to the press at the time.
In fact the only other FPN issued to a Tory minister was to Rishi for his presence at the same event.
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The truth is that most of those "parties in Downing street" didn't take place in Downing street at all, they took place in Whitehall.
(The civil service, not government)
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You want evidence of the supreme court being an 'activist jury'?
Look no further than their verdict that Boris was guilty of breaking a law that doesn't exist.
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That's the top tier of the judiciary, many of whom were in receipt of stipend from the EU, trying to break the UK constitution on behalf of the remain lobby.

8. NH , Monday, February 05, 2024, 15:10:

1. Sparky , "The UK was the first country to ratify the convention, in 1951. Signatory governments are obliged to enforce rulings of the Strasbourg-based human rights court"
To claim the UK electorate is bound, and has no say, to comply with an agreement that was signed before the vast majority of them were born is astonishing. It seems you do not have a single good word to say about the UK unless it involves undemocratic organisations and processes.
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1. Sparky , "Among large European states only Russia and Belarus are non-members"
Being a member of the ECHR is great providing you do not have to comply with their judgements. I understand there are now over 7000 "pending judgements" and this number seems to growing very rapidly. "Pending" seems to be the European word for "being ignored". The UK seems to be the most compliant nation.
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If the UK is to a member of the ECHR we must be able to ensure it's judges are of a very high standard and they are completely independent. As the ECHR has authority over the UK's Supreme Court you would expect a minimum requirement would be extensive Supreme Court Experience. Sadly this is not the case. Many of them have been criticised, by European Countries, because they have had limited judicial experience. Many also have links to organisations with political interests. 12 were found to have directs links with "Open Society" and another 10 to have indirect links to this organisation. The Open Society (George Soros) is an organisation that is very pro the EU and has funded anti Brexit organisations.

9. John Jones , Monday, February 05, 2024, 16:08:

"..Based on our mailbag, amongst many other things we recommend that the Prime Minister immediately withdraws the United Kingdom from the jurisdiction of the ECHR..."
Can Facts4eu please explain to all what the relationship is between the European Union and the ECHR is.
We understand that the ECJ/CJEU is effectively the Supreme Court of the European Union & is based in Luxembourg.
We understand that the ECHR is based in Strasbourg and came about in c 1951 - it clearly isn't covered in any of the Treaties of Rome & subsequent EC/EU Treaties.
As we are also in NATO, does this also impinge on our sovereignty? 🤔

10. Gazzablack , Monday, February 05, 2024, 18:45:

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Oh dear Jonsey
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The EU mandates all EU countries be members of the European Court of Human rights despite not being a member itself.
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The fact that the ECHR isn't a department of the EU is irrelevant, it's still a foreign construct that isn't answerable to the UK's sovereign legislature, and operates on the principle of "Corpus Juris" and not "Habeas Corpus"
(Many of the judges are political appointments)
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No, NATO doesn't impinge on our sovereignty.
It's a voluntary organisation that makes NO impositions on domestic !aw.

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