Politica britanică de mediu post–brexit: putem vorbi despre de–europenizare?
Post-Brexit British Environmental Policy: Can We Talk about De-Europeanisation?

Summary/Abstract: The UK joined European Union in 1973 and soon gained the reputation of being one of the most euro sceptic member states. In 2016, the British people voted in a referendum to leave the EU. What are the implications of Brexit at the national environmental law level is the question for which we will seek an answer in this article. Why Environmental Law? First, because EU membership has had a fundamental impact on environmental legislation in the UK, all academic researchers and papers concluded that British environmental law has been europeanised. Environmental policy making in UK has been profoundly shaped by processes of Europeanisation, almost 80% of the legislation was created at the European level and transposed afterwards at the national level. Second, there is great support for maintaining the high environmental standards and principles and there are voices that expressed their concern over the possibility of lowering the standards in absence of European Commission and European Court of Justice`s surveillance. Third, the future trade relationship between UK and EU is very important for both parties, but this relationship cannot exist in the absence of environmental standards. The UK EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (contains a range of commitments on climate change and environmental protection ) and The Environmental Bill 2020, that created the Office of Environmental Protection (OEP) (which will perform its own independent investigations and enforce environmental law) will be analyzed in order to assess if there is a process of de europeanisation ongoing at the British environmental policy, politics and polity level. De europeanisation will be the theoretical concept used as an analytical instrument to see the development of UK Environmental Policy post Brexit.

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