Member

My second area of concern relates to the way in which the Government intend to use Clause 2(7) in particular, as well as Clause 1(2) if it survives in practice. It is best understood if we take an example. Suppose that we and the EU are operating on the basis of a common standard on, say, plastic bottle tops. The EU then changes its regulations to require those tethered bottle tops that we all dislike. When and if this Bill is enforced, the Government would have to decide whether to make that new EU standard the law in the UK, too, under Clause 2(7), and perhaps make a linkage to the EU regulation. If the Government do that, is it their intention that that new EU standard would, if you like, squeeze out the old UK standard or that the two standards would run in parallel with each other? Or would it be a case-by-case judgment?