Which laws, that the UK didn't want, will be the first to go?

[BercowsFlyingFlamingo]

When the transition period ends and as of the 1st January 2021 we are "truly free and independent of the EU and all the laws and rules they impose on us," which ones will be the first to go? Which ones were forced upon us? Or which ones did we vote against but ended up with anyway?

Is there a record of the process to invoke laws and how different countries voted?

Let's hope GDPR, but sadly probably not.

I was thinking about this last night, I don't think it will either because UK companies w/could still be holding EU nationals information.

The one about having to put meat in the sausages, which ruins the flavour of the rusks and permitted antioxidents.

I could get behind that

Why would you want to get rid of GDPR @2stepsonthewater? I think it's much better for people, companies have to tell you what they are using your data for, you can choose what you allow, you can't be opted in by default. Companies have to take care of your data and delete it after a reasonable time. What's not to like?

The EU does not permit its members or its applicants to have a functioning death penalty. Now that we have left, we are in no position to vote on changing that.

Data roaming charges - am sure we will be paying those again soon.

@TheSmallAssassin
Yeah, the intention behind it was good, maybe it's more the implementation in the UK that has been ridiculous overkill and general misunderstanding.

GDPR is fab
please do not malign it ....
UK Guidance has been overkill but the ICO have been much more measured
its the companies selling DPO services who are sharks

in the USA there are no data privacy rules
so anything you search can be linked to your address and used for marketing

I have a teenage son

you can work out the rest

If we don't have GDPR or an equivalent, we are fucked. No personal data , such as in bank accounts or business lists of customers can be readily used internationally without considerable drama and red tape. Canada and Japan have a data protection regime deemed "adequate " for trade. USA does not. We have had data protection law in the UK longer than the EU has had it. Sorry, that it's boring grown up stuff but sadly grown ups need to do grown up stuff.

Just heard on the radio that Boris has said that the UK won't agree to adhere to European environmental and labour standards as part of a trade deal! Surprised???

Ps my family in the US have told me that everyone gets several robocalls per day. Not sure if this is linked to GDPR issues, but it's a real scourge.

I agree with the above - anything that protects employee rights will most likely be weakened or removed. Working time directive, minimum wage, etc.

Boris Johnson is giving a speech this morning. The text already released includes this wording (my bolding):
“There is no need for a free trade agreement to involve accepting EU rules on competition policy, subsidies, social protection, the environment, or anything similar any more than the EU should be obliged to accept UK rules.”

Cookie alerts on websites? Were those an EU thing? I wouldn't mind those going, bastard things - I think by now we're all aware of cookies and whether we want to blanket accept them or not.

Procurement law. The Public/Utilities/Concessions Contracts regs will still exist, but they'll be adjusted so we don't need to open competition to other countries and the thresholds will probably be whacked right up to allow decision makers to more freely sell off public sector work to their mates.

Eu working time directive already been quietly dropped as have other protections.

Rees Mogg wants Air Quality to be on a par with Delhi

Or maybe we should copy Italy (when did they leave the EU??)

www.thelocal.it/20171115/red-water-ilva-steelworks-taranto
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49713147

the Irish PM said on the Andrew Marr show that he believed Johnson when he both publicly and privately says that it won't engage in a race to the bottom in terms of workers' rights/pay etc.

Hmmmmm. I wonder if he was paying attention this morning.

My guess is the Working Time Directive will be the first to go. And fast.

My worry is that businesses will be allowed to revert to only displaying prices/weights in imperial measurements and use this as an opportunity to put prices up (note: they have never been banned from using imperial weights/measures, they have been obliged to display the metric equivalent). I'm also with PP who think the roaming charges will start to apply again on 1st Jan 2021.

One thing they might want to do quite quickly as a way of boosting sales of British made goods is reinstigate something like the Kitemark. But as PP mentioned any company wanting to sell in Europe will have to keep the CE standards and any others that apply. It's certainly going to be interesting.

@brefugee

It’s already gone or on the way to go working time directive was part for the last load of legislation snook out during Megxit

Equalised retirement ages for men and women will go.

Weren't our laws better than theirs for workers
It's not their laws versus our laws. The EU sets minimum limits that each country can better if they want to - because each country is an independent state with it's own sovereignty.

Or maybe we should copy Italy (when did they leave the EU??)
You mean ignore EU and national law and poison our population? I wouldn't recommend it.

blimey @lovelyupnorth i hadn't realised (not in UK) I knew about the exception but not that it had completely gone.

Health & Safety next then...

Equalised retirement ages for men and women will go
Nah, it will be 80 for everybody

Weren't our laws better than theirs for workers adding to what Seventyone72seventy3 said, that was then. This is now. It's not like we are just going to revert to pre EU rules. Contrary to popular belief, Brexit doesn't mean that the clock will be turned back.

Maybe we'll get incandescent lightbulbs again. And wasn't it power-limiting on vacuum cleaners that led to rush buying of old, more powerful stock? I'd rather still be in the EU like, but hey ho, at least you'd be able to see the dust and hoover it up.