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This is an absolutely hilarious list: after much sound and fury, all the retained EU law identified for revocation is along the lines of "this was a temporary provision that expired in 2012", "this amends something we revoked already", or for a really ambitious one, "this licensing regime was introduced in 2007 and no-one has used it" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/15/no-longer-relevant-to-the-uk-list-of-600-eu-laws-to-be-scrapped-is-published
@generalising but will I still be able to shoot Scotsmen with a bow and arrow within the York City walls?
@edwinb that's the brexit dividend!
@generalising If only the schedule included CELEX numbers, one might try and go check how many of these acts have already ceased in the EU.
others on the list include
* "we meant this to be repealed on exit but apparently we missed it"
* "we can repeal this because we wrote some new regulations coming out later this year that cover it" (not quite sticking to the theme, there)
* "we can repeal this because we don't need to regulate analogue TVs any more"
It's amazing. All that sound and fury about red tape, and it's basically the equivalent of the Law Commission's suggesting we can repeal a sixteenth-century militia act.