New product safety proposals have gone closer to law, claiming that they can enable ministers to “sabotage” Brexit,
MPs voted for 264 to 99, 165 majority to approve product regulation and metrology Bill On its third reading. The bill provides new powers to the government to regulate the marketing and use of goods in the UK post-breaks.
However, TUV leader Jim Alastair expressed concern about specific references “European Union The law “within the bill. He questioned whether it could allow ministers to work against the 2016 referendum results.
Critics fears that the law will force the rules of the UK to automatically align with changes in the European Union law, providing ministers to “unfairly wide” powers to rewrite the rules.
North Entream MP Mr. Alastair told Folk: “There are aspects of this bill that I think are democratically dangerous.
“Because this bill gifts the ability to unbridled the government, there is almost no monitoring from this elected House, on cases that touch not only the sanctity of our product production, but also the sovereignty of this nation.
“This bill, with very little effort in subtlety, is a vehicle that enables a government, if so, the brain – and it is one, I am afraid, maybe – in many ways to vandalize the brakes.
“I am standing to be right, but I don’t think a single member of this government has voted for Brexit, and yet it has been settled and declared by the people, the country has the largest number of people who have participated in a democratic vote in a democratic vote in this country.
“Nevertheless in the bill, we have the capacity, especially through Claus 2 (7), to dynamically align all our rules with the European Union, and to do so that without the whisper of the executive in this house.
Shadow Trade Minister Dame Harriet Baldwin also said: “As an independent nation, Britain believes that we should not promote innovation, support domestic industry and automatically align with the rules of the European Union, which we no longer have any effect or shape.”
Responding, Business Minister Justin Maders told Commons: “The powers in this bill give Britain flexibility to manage their own product regulatory structure.
“A part of it is certainly ensuring that the UK can respond to relevant development in the European Union law, and this does not mean that the UK is to see the changes of the European Union, and all the rules will be subject to the monitoring of the Parliament.”
He said that “The reason for the bill clearly refer to the European Union rather than other courts as most of our product regulation has definitely inherited from the law of the European Union”.
