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Yes. It’s not like all the EU laws the UK had adopted before Brexit suddenly went out the window overnight.

Not necessarily true, since regulations are EU law that is immediately enforceable in member states, and are not generally transposed into state law.

I guess it depends on the country. In Poland my experience is that every time EU passes some regulation Polish parliament passes the corresponding bill implementing it. So even if we left EU tomorrow those bills will still be in effect.

Also, I'm not sure about this "immediately enforceable" part - I recall some cases where member states delayed implementing EU laws for years, sometimes ending up being sued to European Court of Justice.

> I guess it depends on the country.

AFAIK it works pretty much the same in all countries and only depends on whether it's an EU regulation[0] or an EU directive[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_(European_Union)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_(European_Union)

EU Regulations and Decisions directly affect member states. Whereas EU Directives require member states to enact new laws.

As the GDPR is a regulation, it directly applied to member states.

When the UK left the EU they made a paralled law

> The GDPR has been incorporated into UK data protection law as the UK GDPR see: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/dp-at-the-end-of-the-tr...

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