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Oral answer to question provided on Monday, 19 November 2007 in the House of Lords, by Lord Bach (Labour).


Regulatory Reform Orders: DBERR

Answer

My Lords, on EU regulation, in March this year we, together with the Danes and the Dutch, were very much in the forefront in getting the EU to agree a target to reduce EU administrative burdens by 25 per cent by 2012. We are also working to ensure that best practice is producing robust impact assessments for all European legislation.

This is an answer to the Oral question asked on Monday, 19 November 2007 by Lord Stoddart of Swindon (Independent Labour).

Question
My Lords, is not the Government’s work on better regulation being hampered by new directives from the European Union? The latest one I have seen is a soil condition directive. What on earth is that about? Are the Government going to oppose it?

Secondary information

Type
Oral answer to question
Reference
696 c659 
Session
2007-08
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Subjects
Regulation Regulatory reform orders Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Legislative reform orders
Link
View this Oral answer to question on www.publications.parliament.uk