Retained EU law dashboard

In September 2021, the government announced the review into the substance of retained EU law (REUL) to determine which departments, policy areas and sectors of the economy contain the most REUL.

The REUL dashboard showcases the outcome of this review and subsequent further work by departments as an authoritative catalogue of REUL.

The public is invited to explore this catalogue to build an understanding of how much EU-derived legislation sits on the UK statute book and scrutinise legislation.

Background

REUL is a category of domestic law created at the end of the transition period. It is made up of certain pieces of direct EU legislation that were ‘cut and pasted’ onto the UK statute book. REUL can include legislation that is primarily designed to fulfil domestic policy objectives or other international commitments, where legislation also implements EU obligations. obligations.

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Future updates to the Dashboarddashboard will take place throughout 2024.2023. These will include further previously ‘orphaned’ REUL which has been identified by The National Archives. The first of these additional updates occurred in September 2023, with 77 additional pieces added, all planned for revocation via a statutory instrument to be laid on 4 September 2023. The dashboard now totals 4,994 entries.

This catalogue is provided by the UK government and is therefore not intended to provide an authoritative account of REUL that sits with the competence of the devolved governments. However, it may contain individual pieces of REUL which do sit in devolved areas,areas and it does identify the territorial application of each piece of REUL. .

Creating and continuing to develop this comprehensive record of EU-derived legislation will enable the government to accelerate regulatory reform and reclaim the UK statute book. Going forward, the government will continue to update this catalogue on a quarterly basis as government departments work to identify where more legislation can be amended, repealed or replaced. This dashboard documents the government’s progress against that aim.

For further instructions on using the dashboard please visit the Retained EU Law dashboard.