Member

The second objective relates to the common frameworks, about which I need to say a bit more. They were created to ensure that a common approach was taken to ensure that some measure of consistency was achieved across policy areas returned to us from the EU which intersect with devolved competence. That is rather convoluted language, but it makes the essential point that it is inherited from the EU and, under the EU system, devolved Administrations had a measure of independence about how they dealt with various matters. Their engagement with devolved competence matters because one of the features of the way in which these matters were dealt with in the EU was that it enabled the devolved Administrations to diverge from other parts of the UK about how matters that were within their devolved competence, for example, with regard to the pasteurisation of milk or single-use plastics, should be dealt with.