Question reference: S6W-18880
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 21 June 2023
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Current status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 29 June 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its commitment to align with EU law, what assessment it has made of how many (a) directives, (b) regulations and (c) pieces of tertiary legislation, that it considers relate to areas of devolved competence, have been passed by the EU since 1 January 2021, and how many of each it looked at, in total, in reaching any such assessment.
Answer
The Scottish Government is committed to aligning with EU law where that is possible and will have a meaningful impact on the outcomes we share with the EU. This is delivered through routine monitoring by policy experts. Therefore the Scottish Government does not maintain an authoritative record of all EU directives, regulations and legislation which cover topics of devolved competence since 2021.
The Scottish Government’s policy statement on the approach to EU alignment, approved by parliament on 8 June 2022, sets out detail of this process, acknowledging that much of EU legislation is now not applicable in Scotland since the UK Government removed it from the EU.