EU obligations: UK implementing legislation since 1993 – Commons Library Standard Note

How much UK law implements EU obligations?

This note provides figures for Acts of Parliament and Statutory Instruments from 1993 to 2014 which implement or refer to UK obligations under EU law.

Calculations based on information from the UK parliamentary search database and legislation.gov.uk give the following figures for EU-related Acts and SIs for the period 1993-2014:

34,105 UK Acts and SIs

4,375 EU-related UK Acts and SIs

An average of 12.8% of UK instruments are EU-related

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