Seabed User & Developer Group position on Brexit
Over the last twenty years the marine industry has worked closely with UK government and its agencies to ensure that legislation delivers sustainable development in increasingly proportionate ways. While it remains challenging at times to get approval for development in the marine environment and more can still be done to improve this, protection of the environment alongside marine development has been successfully demonstrated on many occasions and it is essential that this is maintained through Brexit and beyond. The wealth of experience that exists and the lessons that have been learnt over the years suggest that if the UK government remains committed to environmental protection as well as continued Blue Growth, then we are better served by maintaining the current legislation than by starting afresh with new legislation.
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