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Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/128 of 20 January
2017 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97
on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora
by regulating trade therein
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them on EU principles).
King et al say the whole object and purpose of the 1972
Act is to make the UK part of the EU. But it isnt,
since the UK became part of the EU via the treaty and it
is within the treaty that EU rights lie, not in the ECA.
The ECA did not take Britain into the EU but it allows
Britain to exist more comfortably within it from a legal
point of view ensuring, in particular, no awkward
clashes between UK laws and EU laws.
So what happens after Theresa Mays Great Repeal Bill
and Brexit? A disturbing prospect has arisen of a bonfire
of legal rights currently held by British citizens could be
brought about on little more than the say-so of
government ministers. No parliamentary debate, little
likelihood of votes by MPs, rights lost by administrative
order rather than new laws passing through both Houses
of Parliament.
Here is the plan: Given there are many legal rights
enshrined in UK law that derive from the European
Union and which, under the Great Repeal plan, will
remain in effect after Britain leaves, an efficient way
must be found to comb through them and disapply them
where necessary. It could take mammoth parliamentary
sessions passing complex repealing legislation. Instead,
and rather chillingly, Conservative barrister Martin
Howe QC (among others) has said ministers should be
given powers to disapply them bit by bit as and when it
is deemed appropriate.
So Parliament will be asked to pass a piece of primary
legislation, possibly in the Great Repeal Bill itself,
handing those powers to ministers, in other words
allowing the ministers to repeal or disapply European
Following the vote to leave the EU, in order to start a formal legal
Article 50 ruling
Courts should never
have got involved in
Brexit, says dissenting
judge
Gordon Rayner, chief reporter
25 JANUARY 2017
Government are among the most Europhile of the 11member bench at the Supreme Court.
Lord Carnwath, 71, was one of four founders of the EU
Forum of Judges for the Environment and served as the
forums secretary from 2004-05.
The body exists to promote the enforcement of national,
European and international environmental law.
In his ruling, he said the High Court, which ruled last
year that a parliamentary vote was needed to trigger
Article 50, took too narrow a view of the constitutional
principles at stake.
"The article 50 process must and will involve a
partnership between Parliament and the Executive. But
that does not mean that legislation is required simply to
initiate it.
"Legislation will undoubtedly be required to implement
withdrawal, but the process, including the form and
timing of any legislation, can and should be determined
by Parliament not by the courts.
"That involves no breach of the constitutional principles
which have been entrenched in our law since the 17th
century, and no threat to the fundamental principle of
Parliamentary sovereignty."
He added that triggering Article 50 was simply the start
of an essentially political process of negotiation and
decision-making within the framework of [Article 50].
Theresa May.
Gerry Adams
Brexit claims
unfounded, insist
government
It added: These comments are totally without any
basis in fact.
The Sinn Fein leader said Northern Ireland should
enjoy special status within the union of 27 states after
Brexit, and claimed that would not affect the
constitutional settlement which secures its status as
part of the UK.
The Government said: The UK Government is fully
behind the implementation of the Belfast Agreement
and its successors, including Stormont House and
Fresh Start. There will be no return to the borders of
the past.
We are also working intensively to ensure that
following the forthcoming election strong and stable
devolved government that works for everyone is reestablished in Northern Ireland.
Mr Adams, a Dail TD (member of the Irish
parliament), addressed a conference on achieving a
united Ireland in Dublin on Saturday.
He said: The British Governments intention to take
the North out of the EU, despite the wish of the people
there to remain, is a hostile action.
Not just because of the implications of a hard border
on this island, but also because of its negative impact
on the Good Friday Agreement.
The British Prime Minister repeated her intention to
bring an end to the jurisdiction of the European
Court.
Along with her commitment to remove Britain from
the European Convention on Human Rights, this
stand threatens to undermine the fundamental
Unionists and
nationalists clash
on Brexit ruling
January 27, 17
Article Byline
BEN LOWRY
Friday 27 January 2017
Dublin needs to
keep its options
open, including
quitting the EU
RAY BASSETT
January 27, 17
Therefore, there must be serious doubts about the
sustainability of the GFA and St Andrews Agreement,
if the basis on which they were constructed is altered
by a hard Brexit.
The EU is changing and there are moves afoot to
attack the foundation on which Ireland built its recent
success, namely its advantage in tax terms in securing
a huge proportion of American FDI. The move in the
EU towards a more harmonised tax arrangement and
a vigorous campaign at OECD and G20 levels against
aggressive corporate tax avoidance means that
Irelands current arrangement will be constantly
under attack. Without the UK as a strong and reliable
ally inside the EU, the Irish ability to resist will be
compromised
The Irish government, its politicians and officials, are
working hard to plan for a hard Brexit. This is very
laudable but in some ways, it represents another
example of Groupthink.
The whole political establishment seems to have
taken the same line. The alternative, a decision to
hold off any decision until the outcome of a deal
emerges, does not seem to have been given any
serious thought. The very idea that Ireland might
leave the EU, if the deal is bad enough, is literally
beyond the Pale for the Dublin establishment.
The EU itself will not want Ireland thinking about
Irexit. As with the UK, albeit on a smaller scale,
Ireland is a net contributor to the EU budget, paying
in more to the EU than it receives in the various EU
programmes.
By Christopher Booker
5:39PM BST 11 May 2013
If we really wish to remedy that error, the only practical way that
can be brought about is by invoking Article 50.
Strange weather is normal
When Boris Johnson entertained his readers last week with his
account of a bike ride to the Chilterns, he described how he was
greeted by the sight of hawthorn blossom like gun smoke
exploding across the hill-sides. What I suspect he saw was not an
early sight of the frozen firework displays of hawthorn blossom, but
this years late flowering of blackthorn, as I confirmed when
travelling through the Chilterns last week, and seeing it still shining
white in the hedgerows.
It is true that for some years the hawthorn did flower very much
earlier than normal (in 2010 I saw it in Somerset on April 25). This
prompted environmental journalists who know little about nature to
hail it as one of the proofs, along with primroses in December, that
the world was in the grip of runaway warming. But since nature
has since returned to its former patterns (last years hawthorn
didnt come into flower until May 22), they have gone strangely
quiet about such things.
The new party line, as we know, is to promote their cult by going
on about anything that can be called an extreme weather event,
as if such things never happened before, so that any unusual
flood, drought or snowfall can be seen as further proof of warming
that otherwise remains largely invisible.
I was lately reading the diary entries by Pepys and Evelyn, noting
the plethora of extreme weather events in the 17th century, when
scarcely a year went by when they could not describe some flood,
drought, storm or blizzard as being unknown in the memory of
man. But the 17th century, of course, was the height of the Little
Ice Age, when the world was colder than it had been in 13,000
years. Those environmental zealots so eager to blame any
aberration in our weather on man-made warming seem to know as
little of history as they do of nature.
Arctic heroes honoured at last
The sight of 39 aged veterans lined up on the shores of Loch Ewe,
Scotland, to be given Arctic Star medals, and to stand in silent
memory of their 3,000 comrades who died on those 78 convoys
that battled against all odds to bring military supplies to northern
Russia between 1941 and 1945, marked the end of one of the
more curious political blunders of our post-war history.
For 68 years successive governments refused to recognise the
heroism of those who survived what Churchill called the worst
journey in the world by giving them medals.
only three days for the committee stage of the Bill. That's
fine for Government, but how do we the ordinary people
show contempt for Parliament and, as Pete ponders, is it
deserving of anything else?
At least, though, no one of any significance is suggesting
that Article 50 is not the operative instrument. But, from
there to here, via here, it's been a long, long journey.
Even then, in May 2013, Booker writing that "the solution
to this EU mess lies in Article 50", I was being called a
"useful idiot". It was then being argued that:
The Gordian knot of Article 50 can be cut simply by
passing an Act of Parliament repealing all the treaties that
refer to the EU from the Treaty of Rome onwards. No
major UK party could object to this because all three have,
at one time or another, declared that Parliament remains
supreme and can repudiate anything the EU does if it so
chooses.
Mr Davis, the previous year, in November 2012, was
telling us that his preference was "that we should remain
within the Customs Union of the EU".
But if the EU did not want to do that, the other options, he
said, "are pretty attractive too. The Swiss free trade area
approach would allow us to negotiate advantageous trade
deals with non-EU countries. It is this sort of option that
offers Britain the 'European Hong Kong' strategy. So UK
negotiators would have the luxury of negotiating for one of
several options, all better than our current status".
At the time, Mr Davis was actually arguing for two
referendums: a "Mandate referendum" to give a
Conservative Prime Minister a mandate "to get as close as
possible to the trading alliance, the common market we all
voted for in 1975".
If passed, voters would have made it clear that they want