Proceeding contribution from David Heathcoat-Amory (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 27 March 2006. It occurred during Ministerial statement on European Council.
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Six years ago, after the Lisbon summit, the Prime Minister specifically promised that Europe would move"““away from heavy-handed intervention and regulation, towards a new approach based on enterprise, innovation and competition.—[Official Report, 27 March 2000; Vol. 347, c. 21.]." However, those of us on the European Scrutiny Committee have noticed no reduction in the volume of legislation or in the appetite of the EU for more business regulations. Why should we believe the statement this time around? In particular, why does paragraph 61, announcing the better regulation initiative this time, specifically exempt the 97,000 pages of the existing rules and regulations, known as the acquis communautaire?
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- Constitutions Elections European Union EU internal trade Gibraltar EU economic policy EU reform Regulation European Council Ukraine EU external relations EU energy policy Belarus World economy
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