Article 50 (TEU) meaning

Original news Brexit must not trade away environmental protections, Committee warns, LNB News 04/01/2017 90 The Environmental Audit Committee has cautioned ministers that safeguards for the environment must not be diluted during the UK’s exit from the EU or thereafter, and urges the introduction of a new Environmental Protection Act alongside Article 50 TEU talks to preserve the UK’s high environmental benchmarks. Such legislation would limit the danger of ‘zombie legislation’—that is, EU-derived rules carried into domestic law but left unrefreshed, vulnerable to being whittled away via statutory instruments with scant parliamentary oversight. What prompted the Committee to issue this report? Titled ‘The Future of the Natural Environment after the EU Referendum’, it forms part of a suite of inquiries by the Committee into the real‑world consequences for UK environmental policy once we leave the EU. This work follows an earlier pre‑referendum study which found that homegrown environmental policy has benefited markedly from more than four decades of EU membership—a conclusion hardly startling given that around 80% of the...

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note is archived and no longer maintained. It outlines the legal consequences for Scotland arising from the UK’s departure from the EU. Notably, these implications stem from the United Kingdom’s devolution arrangements, which allocate legislative and executive authority to the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Government under the Scotland Act 1998 (SA 1998), subsequently and progressively expanded—principally to increase legislative and taxation powers—by the Scotland Act 2012 (SA 2012) and the Scotland Act 2016 (SA 2016) (collectively, the Scotland Acts). For additional guidance on Brexit, see: Scotland collection. Scotland's constitutional arrangements The starting point remains that Scotland’s status within what is now the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland finds its constitutional basis in the Act of Union between Scotland and England. Although devolution has re-ordered aspects of internal governance, the UK’s character as a single and continuing sovereign State is unaffected by the enactment of the Scotland Acts and endures unchanged. The Scotland Acts confer a wide range of legislative competences upon...

ARCHIVED : This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. On 23 June 2016, the UK held a referendum on EU membership, with a majority backing departure from the EU (also known as ‘Brexit’). On 29 March 2017, the Prime Minister gave formal notice of the UK’s intention to withdraw under Article 50 TEU, initiating the exit process—see: Brexit: UK Article 50 TEU notification starts the clock—what happens now? This Practice Note traces the sequence of key events and updates, presented in reverse chronological order: from the referendum through to the triggering of Article 50 TEU, and from that point to the UK’s formal withdrawal from the EU on 31 January 2020. Developments after that date appear in our Brexit timeline. For broader context, see our Brexit subtopic—Brexit—overview. For updates and guidance tailored to particular practice areas, see: Brexit collection. Brexit timeline—2020 (up to exit day) 31 January 2020 (11 pm) — EU/UK — Exit day: the UK formally ended its...

On 23 June 2016, the UK voted in a referendum on its membership of the European Union (EU). A majority of 51.9% backed the UK’s departure from the EU (‘Brexit’). On 29 March 2017, the government formally notified the EU of the UK’s intention to withdraw, invoking Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU). Under Article 50, unless otherwise agreed by the parties, the withdrawal arrangements must be settled within two years, failing which the UK would exit the EU without a deal. A central question in the withdrawal negotiations concerned safeguarding the residence rights of EU nationals residing in the UK and British nationals living in other EU states. In the absence of transitional measures, the immediate effect of the UK leaving the EU could be that all EU‑derived residence rights would cease...