'Worst nightmare' Fury as Britain set to KEEP 'hated' EU fishing rules beyond March 2019.
PLANS to keep “hated” EU fishing rules in place beyond March 2019 were tonight described as the struggling British industry’s “worst nightmare”.
Ministers have confirmed the bloc’s controversial quota system, the
Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), will be copied in its entirety into UK law as
part of the exit process.
The Government insists that Britain will “become an independent coastal
state on the day we leave the European Union” but says Brussels red tape needs
to be phased out gradually.
It has drawn up a Great Repeal Bill which will transpose all EU law onto
the British statute books, with MPs then set to go through each individual piece
and decide what should be kept, amended or binned.
Environment minister George Eustice revealed Britain will leave the CFP
in March 2019 but will directly replicate the terms of the programme to “provide
continuity on the day we leave”.
