There was a period in our final decade of membership that the European Commission took the UK government, on environmental issues, before the European court of justice on 34 occasions, winning 30 of them.
The environmental governance gap on Brexit was fully explored and debated in parliament, where it was pointed out that while the ECJ could threaten a financial penalty, the then proposed Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) could do no such thing.
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