Friend’s question, but I am confident that the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments has had a chance to look at the matter, and I welcomed its report at the beginning of my speech. Now that an extension to article 50 has been agreed in EU and international law, we need to amend that date to reflect the new point at which the EU treaties cease to apply. This definition has effect across the whole UK statute book. All these changes are designed to ensure that our statute book works when we leave the European Union, and all are due to take place on exit day. These changes apply across a huge number of policy areas, from emissions trading to Europol. I am not a spokesman for it.Ĭurrently, major changes to our domestic statute book reflecting our exit from the European Union are due to take effect on exit day, which is defined in the EU withdrawal Act as 11 pm on 29 March, despite the extension terms that have been agreed at international level.

But that is for the European Council to determine. My understanding is that that was the Council’s view of when we would have to give notice that we would be holding European elections, if we were staying in for longer, and that is why it set that date as the date by which we would have to have made our mind up as to whether we are leaving.

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