EU and their obsession to overdo the red tape outdoes Monty Python!

[WiseOwl]

The European Union's 'addiction' to red tape was laid bare yesterday.

Since the 2010 general election Brussels has handed down almost 3,600 pieces of new regulation and directives affecting British businesses.

A campaign group said last night that the 13million words contained in the deluge of bureaucracy would take more than 92 days to read in all.

(Funny how the sand "man" ignored this from yesterday's Mail!)

Business for Britain said the avalanche of directives is strangling UK firms and making it harder to compete with corporations in the US and in emerging markets in the Far East and South America.

David Cameron has pledged to hold talks to get some powers back from Brussels and to reduce the burden of red tape on business, ahead of a 2017 referendum on membership of the EU.

Matthew Elliott, chief executive of Business for Britain, said: 'The EU has an addiction to red tape that desperately needs to be tackled.

'The forthcoming renegotiation with Brussels must focus on overhauling its approach to regulation, for the good of jobs and growth in Britain.'


David Cameron has pledged to hold talks to get some powers back from Brussels and reduce the burden of red tape

David Cameron has pledged to hold talks to get some powers back from Brussels and reduce the burden of red tape



The organisation's research found that since the start of this Parliament in May 2010, a total of 3,589 regulations and directives affecting UK businesses have been handed down from Brussels.

It would take a businessman, working an average eight hours a day and reading at an average speed of 300 words a minute, 92 days to read all the 13,321,530 words in all the business-related EU red tape enacted since the current government came to power.


This equates to around a month's worth of reading every year to keep on top of new regulations.

Last week, inventor Sir James Dyson was forced to lodge a legal challenge to new EU labelling regulations for vacuum cleaners.


He claims the new labelling rules make it look as if Dysons are less energy efficient than they actually are.


Over the past few months, UK companies have had to fight proposed EU legislation such as measures to ban the Union Jack from packs of meat, enforce quotas in boardrooms and prohibit refillable olive oil jugs in restaurants.

In the past three months alone, the EU has found time to issue regulations on anchovy fishing in the Bay of Biscay, the labelling of spirits and the use of rosemary extracts in certain low-fat meat and fish products.


Other regulations cover the authorisation of ammonium chloride as a feed additive for ruminants, cats and dogs, and the use of certain additives in seaweed-based fish roe substitutes.



Beurocrats

[WiseOwl]

You know that old saying of a man convinced against his will is of....
I think it was aimed at people unable to grasp an alternative view from their own.
These lost souls are called egocentric, Thatcher was one, Hitler too: so the myopic sand "man" is in a dark place with like minded people for company!