Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 17 January 2011.
Caroline Lucas
Leader of the Green Party
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills which organisations he consulted on his proposal to adopt as routine the practice of copying out the text of EU directives as a means of implementing them in UK law.
Mark Prisk
The Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Under its Guiding Principles for EU legislation, the Government will use copy out for transposition where it is available, except where doing so would adversely affect UK interests. This will help implement the coalition commitment to end 'gold-plating' of EU rules, so that British businesses are not disadvantaged relative to their European competitors.
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