Clause 25 - EEA agreement and EEA state
Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
1:45 pm
Jim Murphy (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Cabinet Office; East Renfrewshire, Labour)
To the extent that the hon. Gentleman gets the point, I think that I also get it, but it is, as he says, a complicated and potentially circular argument. The only information that I can offer him—his research may have made him aware of this—is that section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 made the EEA agreement a Community treaty for the purposes of the European Communities Act 1972. I shall analyse the hon. Gentleman’s additional comments.