Proceeding contribution from Lord Hannay of Chiswick (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 3 May 2011. It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on European Union Bill.
European Union Bill
I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way, but I fear that he is in danger of misleading the House fairly elaborately in this matter. He is talking about three things, not two: the first is a free trade area, the second is a customs union and the third is the single market. Norway, he has just stated categorically, is not part of the single market. I am afraid that he is in error. It is part of the single market, and it applies single market legislation by receiving fax messages from Brussels telling it what it has to do. The members of the European economic area are in the single market but are not in a customs union. However, I am not totally sure that this line of argument is going to get us very far—but it would be useful.
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- 727 c398-9
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- 2010-12
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- Climate change Competition EU law Energy supply Human trafficking EU accession Financial services EU internal trade Legislation European communities EU internal relations Powers Referendums Piracy Sovereignty Treaties Regulation Treaty on European Union UK membership of EU Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union EU aid Treaty of Lisbon
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- European Union Bill 2010-12
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