After having triggered Article 50 on 29 March and thereby launching the UK’s official exit from the EU, on 30 March the government published its White Paper on Legislating for the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union that clarifies how it intends to adopt the Great Repeal bill and convert the body of European law into UK law. This is in order to guarantee continuity for companies and employees, even if further ahead the UK Parliament can amend these laws after it exits the EU.
“The same rules and laws will apply on the day after exit as on the day before,” is the PM Theresa May’s mantra, which gets repeated several times in the White Paper on the Great Repeal Bill, which will first of all set about repealing the 1972 European Communities Act on the day the UK officially leaves the EU. For David Davis, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, who on 30 March presented the Bill’s overall principles to the House of Commons, this law should allow companies to c
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