Environment Secretary Therese Coffey suggests the number of EU laws to be audited has gone up.
The most recent update, in late September, identified 570 EU laws within the department's remit. It said 70 had so far been changed, with 63 abolished.
Greener UK and Wildlife and Countryside Link have warned that it could lead to "significant gaps in our environmental law", with knock on effects for UK-derived legislation.there would be more than 1,000 environmental laws to review before the end of next year, placing an "insurmountable" burden on Defra officials.
"My default will be - so we don't drop the ball - that we retain stuff," she told the committee. "But I want us to go through and see what we can start on." It would give ministers wide-ranging powers to change or get rid of EU laws through secondary legislation, a fast-track process for making laws that receives less scrutiny from MPs.
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