division_name: European Union (Withdrawal) Bill &#8212; Saving for rights etc. under section 2(1) of the ECA
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b733.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We must not only maintain but enhance environmental standards as we leave the EU. And that means making sure we secure the environmental gains we have made while in the EU even as we use our new independence to aim even higher&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b733.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the whole body of existing EU environmental law continues to have effect in UK law&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b733.0/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The same rules and laws will apply on the day after exit as on the day before&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b733.0/13" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;picks up the other obligations, rights and remedies that would currently have the force of UK law under section 2 of the European Communities Act 1972.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2018-11-15">15 November</phrase> 2017; Vol. 631, c. 498.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b743.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;everything from biomedicine and eugenics to personal data and collective bargaining&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b744.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The government has promised there will be no rowing back on people&#8217;s rights after Brexit. If we lose the charter protections, that promise will be broken. It will cause legal confusion and there will be gaps in the law.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b745.4/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;dignity, the right to life, to freedom from torture, slavery, the death penalty, eugenic practices and human cloning&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b745.4/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;freedoms, the right to liberty, personal integrity, privacy, protection of personal data&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b745.4/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;marriage, thought, religion, expression, assembly, education, work, property and asylum&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b745.4/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;equality, the right to equality before the law, prohibition of all discrimination including on the basis of disability, age and sexual orientation, cultural, religious and linguistic diversity, the rights of children and the elderly&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b745.4/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;solidarity, the right to fair working conditions, protection against unjustified dismissal, and access to health care, social and housing assistance&#8230;citizens&#8217; rights, the rights of citizens such as the right to vote in elections and to move freely, the right to good administration, to access documents and to petition Parliament&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b745.4/13" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the right to an effective remedy, a fair trial, to the presumption of innocence, the principle of legality, non-retrospectivity and double jeopardy.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b754.3/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;British politics as currently conducted cannot go on indefinitely, with the will of the people interpreted on the basis of just one June 2016 vote, but ignored in everything else&#8230;public opinion north of the border cannot be permanently ignored without profound consequences.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b754.3/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the political price of enacting legislation without consent&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b754.3/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;might be quite significant indeed.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b756.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the Agreement establishes rights for citizens following on from those established in Union law during the UK&#8217;s membership of the European Union; the CJEU is the ultimate arbiter of the interpretation of Union law. In the context of the application or interpretation of those rights, UK courts shall therefore have due regard to relevant decisions of the CJEU after the specified date. The Agreement should also establish a mechanism enabling UK courts or tribunals to decide, having had due regard to whether relevant case-law exists, to ask the CJEU questions of interpretation of those rights where they consider that a CJEU ruling on the question is necessary for the UK court or tribunal to be able to give judgment... This mechanism should be available for UK courts or tribunals for litigation brought within 8 years from the date of application of the citizens&#8217; rights Part.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b756.1/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The interpretive principles of Clause 6 must be clarified, especially so that courts and tribunals have clear guidance regarding the treatment of retained EU case law by the Supreme Court and&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b756.1/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the High Court of Justiciary to enhance legal certainty and individuals&#8217; access to justice.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b761.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether the implementation phase of the UK leaving the EU will be the same for Anguilla as the rest of the UK; and if he will make a statement.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b761.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Both the EU and the UK have been clear that the Implementation Period will be agreed under Article 50 and be part of the Withdrawal Agreement. Both sides have also been clear that the Overseas Territories, including Anguilla, are covered by the Withdrawal Agreement and our Article 50 exit negotiations&#8230;In these negotiations, we are seeking a deal that works for the whole UK family, including Anguilla.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b763.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the importance of EU funding for sustainable economic development in some Overseas Territories and committed to ensuring that these interests were fully reflected in the UK&#8217;s negotiating position&#8221;?</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b763.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Regardless of the great distance separating them from the European continent, the outermost regions are an integral part of the European Union, and the acquis communautaire is fully applicable in their territory. However, owing to their specific geographical location and the related difficulties, EU policies have had to be adjusted to their special situation.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b763.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">The relevant measures concern, in particular, areas such as customs and trade policies, fiscal policy, free zones, agriculture and fisheries policies, and conditions for supply of raw materials and essential consumer goods.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b765.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Common travel area between Saint Martin and Anguilla&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b765.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;protocol 22 of the EU Treaties&#8230;provides that the UK and another EU member state&#8230;may continue to make arrangements between themselves for the free movement of people within the CTA.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b765.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;frictionless border without the need for passport control.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b765.1/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;with European countries, territories and municipalit&#233;s in the eastern Caribbean.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b765.1/13" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Continued relationship between the UK and EU for the purposes of international development&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b765.1/15" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Continued membership of the Overseas Countries and Territories Association of the European Union of Anguilla with full access to European Development Funds and support&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b765.1/18" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Stronger ties between Anguilla and Britain&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b771.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;is already recognised as a matter of domestic law, primarily in the Animal Welfare Act 2006.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2018-11-15">15 November</phrase> 2017; Vol. 631, c. 499.]</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b783.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b783.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 296, Noes 319.</p>