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European Union (Amendment) Bill

Is the noble Lord aware that one of the great pluses of the treaty of Lisbon protocols is that, when we believe that a proposed European measure violates the principle of subsidiarity, our national Parliament will for the first time be able to have access, in ways to be agreed in due course, to the Court of Justice? Therefore, under this treaty and arrangements for it here—the amendment against it has been withdrawn so we cannot debate it—the democratically elected Chamber and this House will together, with the Government, for the first time, be able to challenge a measure for overreach.