Jan 2010 08

Beyond Repeal II3

In mid-December, we pointed to a handful of fisheries regulations that the Commission were repealing as part of its long-stated drive on bureaucracy. All were hopelessly out of date, and so ditched not out of any sense of regulatory burdens but out of simple practicality.

Another Regulation reaches us (1128/2009) confirming the intent to cut back on the acquis communautaire, this time relating to that behemoth the CAP. Five legislative items are repealed. Of these, one contained text repeated by successive acts; two ran out in 1996; another was a transitional text for the aftermath of German reunification; and the last one covered the year 2008, which seems positively recent in comparison.

The Directory of Community Legislation in Force provides a summary of all existing Communities legislation, with a couple of lines of explanation on each. It was apparently last printed in 2001, and even then ran to 1325 pages.

It hasn’t been printed since as it is too big. This paring back of legislation on the CAP – a historic centre point of the EU – would reduce that volume by half of one side of one page (not counting adding the new Regulation itself, of course). MEPs can pass that amount in a day.

Can do better? Yes, and by miles.

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  • Colin C Bonner

    More “gobbly-gook” the quicker we get out the better, it is way passed a joke, an expensive joke we cannot and have never been able to afford.

  • Keith Johnston

    Can you believe it? Hillary Benn had a long article in the Yorkshire Post last week about his new strategy – Food 2030, and there was not one mention of the EU and CAP. There is a conspiracy of silence among our politicians at Westminster about the source of most of our laws and regulations!
    Keith Johnston

  • Mr Robert Willescroft

    The UK Desperately needs intelligent and loyal government to get us out of the mess this Labour government has put us through. We have had over twelve years of misrule and socialist incompetence .Our Country needs to pull out of the EU for the sake of democracy and national independence.In my opinion, the EU is a foul dictatorship that wants to control every aspect of our lives. I will not vote for any other party but UKIP.