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14.9.05
Barroso drive on absurd EU laws
More than 60 draft European Union laws will be scrapped this month, as José Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, launches Brussels' biggest ever deregulation campaign.
Mr Barroso wants to axe a wide variety of laws designed to impose EU-wide standards, claiming that some legislation was “absurd” and brought Europe into disrepute###
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Mr Barroso and Günter Verheugen, the EU enterprise commissioner, examined 200 draft laws in various stages of the Brussels decision-making process, and have so far identified 69 to be withdrawn and scrapped.
They include proposals to protect workers from solar radiation - a draft law rejected by the European parliament last week after the media claimed it would force builders and Bavarian barmaids to cover up. Mr Barroso said it had become “a joke”.
Mr Barroso is also expected to urge Commission colleagues on September 27 to withdraw proposals for EU-wide rules in areas such as food labelling, presentation and advertising, the regulation of sales promotions and weekend lorry-bans.
Laws will be axed if legislation can be better left to member states, where there is an inadequate assessment of the impact on business, or where the measure is seen as too “heavy handed”.
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Mr Barroso said: “I'm not against regulation at a European level, but we are no longer in the heroic era of Jacques Delors, completing the single market with a new piece of legislation every day.”
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