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DTI: Common Commencement Dates

My right honourable friend the Minister for Competitiveness (Barry Gardener) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. The DTI has today published its annual statement of common commencement dates (CCDs) and other forthcoming proposals. This shows the extension of CCDs to all domestic regulatory areas of DTI. The statement lists those regulations that will come into force on 6 April and 1 October 2006. Other sections of the report show the in-force date of European and other domestic legislation, which are not aligned with CCDs. The document has today been placed in the Libraries of the House and on the DTI and Small Business Service websites at www.dti.gov.uk/ewt/common–comence5.htm and www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?r.s=sl&type=ONEOFFPAGE&itemld=1075320304.