Clause 18 — Status of EU law dependent on continuing statutory basis

Part of Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment) – in the House of Commons at 8:30 pm on 11 January 2011.

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Photo of Bill Cash Bill Cash Chair, European Scrutiny Committee, Chair, European Scrutiny Committee 8:30, 11 January 2011

Does my hon. Friend also agree that, in the context of Van Gend en Loos, Costa and all the other cases that declaration 17, which is attached to the Lisbon treaty, covers, there is no attempt, in declaring the primacy of European law, to define the word "primacy"? Similarly, there is no need to define parliamentary sovereignty. My answer to the Government's point on that issue is, "Tosh".